Former Google Employee’s Video Goes Viral After Sharing Announcement

A former Google employee’s video went viral after she made an announcement about her job. Nicole Tsai posted her experience before and after the announcement on TikTok. During one of her videos, she documented a day in…

Savannah RychcikJan 24, 20232 min read

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Still, users on Twitter reacted to the video by mocking tech employees for seemingly doing little to no work.

One tweet reads, “In the first part of the video she mentioned getting some work done but we never actually see her working.”

Another user wrote, “I swear most corporate employees that make over $100k a year just sit in meetings all day talking about what other people should be doing. What a joke.”

One user wrote they would “cry too if I lost that kind of job. Eat free food and get free drinks.”

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Tsai worked in partner services for Google’s cloud unit since 2021, Fortune reported.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai held a companywide meeting to discuss the layoffs.

“I understand you are worried about what comes next for your work,” Pichai said Monday.

He added, “Also very sad for the loss of some really good colleagues across the company. For those of you outside the U.S., the delay in being able to make and communicate decisions about roles in your region is undoubtedly causing anxiety.”

Fiona Cicconi, Google’s chief people officer, said during the meeting the company considered “skill set, time in role where experience or relationships are relevant and matter, productivity indicators like sales quotas and performance history.”