Bitter on Twitter: Google Laying off More Engineers?

In this day in age, you can’t do anything secretly or “under the radar” – not with things like blogs and Twitter to rat you out.

Several Twitter postings from Mary Hodder seem to suggest that Google is laying off qualified engineers in an effort to further cut costs.  The layoffs are happening “very quietly” so that the press doesn’t get wind of the news.

Or NOT!  Busted by Twitter, it would seem.

See this description of the Google Layoffs from @MaryHodder’s Twitter thread:

Talkng to friend laid off from Google Friday. Others in their eng. gp as well. They don’t want to discuss publicly, but R ok w. my telling.

We think Goog is quietly laying ppl off so as not to alert press. Mgrs have mandate to reduce headcnt, no matter how critical the project.

Full time eng on a critical path project. so were others.. 4-5 yr employees.

Oddly, before this wk 2 othr Goog frnds told me uncomfortably they want to leave..was shocked, they have great jobs, but pressure that Google just wasn’t fun place anymore, but now think it could be really unpleasantly bad for ppl. don’t know, just anecdotal.

These ppl sounded pretty uncomfortable. working 18 hr days .. if you have the big stock, might make you want to go.

For more updates on Google layoff, keep an eye on Twitter @ http://search.twitter.com/search?q=goog.

I have a feeling that JustTechJobs is about to see a big spike in activity.