Why the Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership

How did the company that aspired to be so much more come to this?

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Recently, Google announced it was laying off approximately 6% of its workforce (or 12,000 people). This brings it in line with most of the rest of the tech industry. The reason given by a publicly contrite CEO was that they’d overhired in the boom following the COVID pandemic and…