Google informed their Sales and marketing people that they are planning to layoff 200 Google employees. Google is saying they are laying off these employees because of overlapping areas and over hiring during a more optimistic time.
Omid Kordestani, senior vice president of global sales and business development, said in the blog post.
Today we have informed Googlers that we plan to reduce the number of roles within our sales and marketing organizations by just under 200 globally. We did look at a number of different options but ultimately concluded that we had to restructure our organizations in order to improve our effectiveness and efficiency as a business.
Google has grown very quickly in a very short period of time. When companies grow that quickly it’s almost impossible to get everything right—and we certainly didn’t. In some areas we’ve created overlapping organizations which not only duplicate effort but also complicate the decision-making process. That makes our teams less effective and efficient than they should be. In addition, we over-invested in some areas in preparation for the growth trends we were experiencing at the time.
