“In total, Google has reduced the number of managers, directors, and vice presidents within its workforce by 10%, Pichai said during an all-hands meeting on Wednesday.”
Google says this is not new job cuts beyond the ones already reported. Some managers simply became individual contributors, so the person stays and the title goes. Google cut 12,000 jobs in 2023 and hundreds more this year in ads, engineering and hardware. Meta called the same trick flattening.