YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google’s refusal to negotiate with the union.

  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Having moved onto a team in my company with Cognizant contractors, I can kinda understand Google not renewing the contract. In my experience, half of the PRs needed to be redone because of poor quality.

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      4 months ago

      Yep. Worked with them before. They coached their consultants to pass our tech interviews but had zero actual experience. One guy didn’t know how to open a rails console… On a rails app job. Accenture is just as bad.

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      4 months ago

      They’d been working on this contract for five years. And the NLRB ruled that Google was a co-employer and must sit down with the union to work out a bargaining agreement. This firing was not to do with their job skills. It was entirely retaliatory.