r/Python • u/jmreagle • Apr 29 '24

News Google laysoff Python maintainer team

https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/google-layoffs-sundar-pichai-led-company-fires-entire-python-team-for-cheaper-labour-101714379453603.html

Are there any ramifications for the Python community outside of Google?

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u/sabot00 Apr 30 '24

You can take the Sundar out of McKinsey, but you can't take the McKinsey out of Sundar.

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u/nowthengoodbad Apr 30 '24

Sundar is just depressing. We've watched him play the board and numbers game well as he's actively disassembled google. Countless brilliant engineers bailed, some even leaving before their acquisition vesting finished (I know a lot who got maybe to 70% before getting fed up and leaving)

Every aspect of Google has gone down under his tenure.

As a startup founder, I've tested ads across platforms. Google doesn't even touch even organic Facebook, tiktok, and Instagram traffic, but paid ads is worse.

In fact, the crazy thing is that Etsy ads gave us the easiest return on our ad spend.

Make the listing well and pay for the ad and they are one and the same.

But as for Google, last year, selling Google domains to square space sucked.

They were making $1000 a year from me alone. I can't imagine how much more that they were making on it but probably quite a bit.

Automatic was super smart to offer anyone a free year of domain registration. They're getting ~$900 from me this year and pork bun is getting the rest.

It also helps that pork bun is hilarious, and every step of the process has jokes and fitting humor. But they can register the domains that automatic and my hosting provider can't handle.

However, I'm kinda glad that Google decided to drop it. It was another platform that peaked and then was over engineered into complete garbage. It went from you being able to do and access almost everything that you needed on one screen to needing several steps to get to some thing simple like DNS settings and the more steps to get back to other items.

Hopefully, they don't really screw Python like they have with everything else. But honestly, sundar's gotta go or Google goes the way of GE and others.

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u/JoergJoerginson Apr 30 '24

Man I’m still pissed about Google Domains. Wasted half a day to migrate all my stuff to porkbun and to contact all the people I had recommended GD to.

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u/nowthengoodbad May 03 '24

Yup. I too proudly recommended people to Google domains. :/