I take it you believe you could go back? I think your time in Google might be at an end, forever.
Unless your exit path was to an alphabet backed entity, you're more valuable to them as a non retained worker right now: they're downsizing.
By the time this ship changes course back to expansion you'd be either too expensive or behind an age/skills curve. Hungrier people will eat your lunch surely?
Just like the long golden age boosted the current morale crisis, these few years of choppy waters will help rebound the optimism when the fortunes inevitably turn for the better
I would not take it for granted that fortunes will turn for the better for a specific company. Big corporate entities can coast decades in a state that is agonizingly stagnant compared to their golden days.
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I take it you believe you could go back? I think your time in Google might be at an end, forever.
Unless your exit path was to an alphabet backed entity, you're more valuable to them as a non retained worker right now: they're downsizing.
By the time this ship changes course back to expansion you'd be either too expensive or behind an age/skills curve. Hungrier people will eat your lunch surely?
I would not take it for granted that fortunes will turn for the better for a specific company. Big corporate entities can coast decades in a state that is agonizingly stagnant compared to their golden days.