A Google engineer says survivors of the mass layoffs cried in meetings the day around 12,000 of their colleagues were culled

• A Google engineer said survivors of the recent mass layoffs cried in meetings the day of the cull.
• Two engineers told Insider some remaining staff were worried about further job cuts.
• Google is now "just another big company," one said.

Some Google employees who survived the recent cull of around 12,000 staff cried during meetings the day layoffs were announced, a serving employee told Insider.

In video calls that day, "some of the folks were sobbing, they were drying their eyes," the employee, an engineer for Google on the East Coast, said.