Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Inc. speaks during an event in New Delhi on December 19, 2022
Google told affected US staff in an early-morning email on January 20 that "we no longer have a job for you."
  • Laid-off Google workers were shocked that the tech giant let them go by email.
  • "How Google behaved was not Google," one affected employee said of the abrupt emails.
  • "It feels very much like they are just as cutthroat corporate as anybody else," another said.

Laid-off Google workers say they're dismayed by the abrupt and impersonal way they were let go.