Sources: several hundred employees from Google's core engineering division received notices that their roles were eliminated and lost corporate access (Nico Grant/New York Times)

Nico Grant / New York Times:

Sources: several hundred employees from Google’s core engineering division received notices that their roles were eliminated and lost corporate access  —  The company, which has been working to trim expenses, laid off employees who worked on core engineering, the Google Assistant product and hardware such as the Pixel phone.