AI Strategy
All-in on AI. CEO Sundar Pichai declared 2024 the "Gemini era" with AI integrated into Search, Workspace, Cloud, and all consumer products.
Layoff History
1,350
Total Layoffs
1,350
AI-Related
100%
AI-Caused
150 employeesAI-Related
AI automation of cloud sales processes
Cloud SalesMarketing
200 employeesAI-Related
Consolidating AI teams under DeepMind
PythonDartFlutter
1,000 employeesAI-Related
Restructuring to focus on AI priorities
HardwareEngineeringAssistant
AI Tools Deployed
GeminiLLM
Deployed: 2023-12
Impacted roles: Content Writers, Customer Support
AI OverviewsSearch
Deployed: 2024-05
Impacted roles: SEO Specialists
NotebookLMResearch
Deployed: 2024-06
Impacted roles: Research Analysts
Veo 2Video
Deployed: 2024-12
Impacted roles: Video Editors, Motion Designers
Roles at Risk
Technical Writers
Data Entry
Customer Support
Content Moderators
Marketing Analysts
Junior Engineers
Growing Roles
AI/ML Engineers
AI Safety Researchers
Prompt Engineers
AI Product Managers
How to Protect Your Career at Google (Alphabet)
Learn to work with Gemini and AI tools rather than competing
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Focus on human-AI collaboration skills
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Recent News
Google launches Gemini 2.0 with agent capabilities
2024-12-11AI Overviews now on 1 billion queries/week
2024-10-15DeepMind achieves AGI milestone claims
2025-01-20Work at Google (Alphabet)?
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