Last Night Was The Longest Night In My Entire Life: Fired Google Employee Posts Ordeal On LinkedIn

Google Layoffs: Matt Hu, the ex-employee, turned to LinkedIn to recount the evening he learned about his layoff, along with his manager and fellow team members

The tech giant Google has laid off its entire Python team as part of cost-saving measures. A social media post by a former Google engineer sharing his ordeal of facing his ordeal of getting fired has gone viral. Matt Hu, the ex-employee, turned to LinkedIn to recount the evening he learned about his layoff, along with his manager and fellow team members.

He said, “Last night was the longest night in my entire life,”  while sharing the entire turn of events on the day he learned that he had been fired from the company.

“I worked from home yesterday and I cooked a big dinner with my girlfriend, and watched the reality show on TV after that. I told my girlfriend I need to prepare for the interview tonight -- as an interviewer, for the first time in my two years at #Google,” he wrote.

Hu added: “That's right, Google has paused hiring for quite a while after I joined and finished the three-hour long interview training. Back in the days, we even need to sign up for the in-person training sessions to be able to graduate.”

“I waited for another half a year to conduct my first shadow interview, hashtag#Googlers are required to take at least one shadow interview to go through the whole hiring process, then speak to the official interviewer to get their interview knowledge aligned, to be finally qualified as an interviewer. And that was almost one year ago. I was hyped and a bit upset before the interview because I almost forgot how to solve an algorithm problem, nor how to gave just feedback to the candidate. Because I am responsible for not only this open role, but also someone's entire career.”

“So I need to prepare it well, too. I went downstairs and opened up my laptop. That was 21:00. I got a weird email saying 'You Cloudtop StopInstance operation has begun' and I suddenly recalled I just had the cloudtop maintenance a few days back, it couldn't be a scheduled task, there is definitely something bad happening. I even 'Momaed' (Google's internal search engine) "what stopinstance means" and I did get the results from the website, so I chose not to believe I was leaving the company,” he wrote.

“Thus I had the longest five minutes in my life, witnessing how I lost corp access one website by another, with a forced laptop reboot, then finally, an email saying "Notice regarding your employment. Until then I started to realize, my watch at Google is over,” he concluded his post.