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Riding the tide of tech layoffs, Google laid off 12,000 employees representing 6% of its workforce last month in a bid to do what CEO Sundar Pichai said was to avoid "much worse problems." This forced the employees through a stressful job search period. Several laid-off tech workers are now taking to social media to share their harrowing experience.
Joel Leitch, a Google software engineer who joined as an intern in 2006 and has stayed there ever since, saw the way out during the company's recent mass layoffs. Sharing his story in a LinkedIn post, Leitch says he never knew another career path and the company lost a dedicated employee when he was laid off. Thanking Google for providing the opportunities, Leitch offers advice to the remaining employees. He writes: "Please remember and keep practicing the '3 R(spect)'. Ask employees to focus on what's best for the user while maintaining a healthy disregard for impossibility. Emphasize innovation and collaboration to create new "magical moments." He says the members of the group and the connections established there will be crucial to Google's future success. "The potential impact it can have on the world is almost infinite."
