Google Recruiter interviewed the candidate when he found out he lost the job

Google announced last week that it is making 12,000 roles redundant

New Delhi:

A man who worked as a recruiter at Google said he discovered he had been fired by the tech giant in the middle of an interview last Friday.

In a LinkedIn post, Dan Lanigan Ryan said he was interviewing a candidate when the call was interrupted and he was locked out of his system.

“Unfortunately, I was laid off from Google along with many thousands of others last Friday. I did not expect it to come to such an abrupt end, locked out of the system in the middle of a conversation,”[ads1]; Mr Ryan’s LinkedIn post said.

The former Googler called it “a dream job with a dream company.”

“A little over a year ago I landed a dream job at a dream company. I was walking my dog ​​when my recruiter called to tell me I got the part and I almost choked the poor dog I was celebrating so much,” he wrote.

Ryan told Business Insider that he tried to access an internal company website during the call last Friday, but was unable to.

He said soon after he lost access to the company’s website, his email was also blocked.

“I was blocked from everything. And then I saw on the news about 15, 20 minutes later that Google announced 12,000 layoffs,” Business Insider quoted him as saying.

Google announced last week that it is making 12,000 roles redundant. Although speculation about the cuts had swirled for months, the layoffs were still a shock to the system for some employees.

CEO Sunder Pichai has emphasized that the cuts were made after careful consideration. “We have decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We have already sent a separate email to US employees who are affected. In other countries, this process will take longer due to local laws and practices, ” Mr Pichai said in a statement.