Google plans to mix the groups engaged on its Maps product and on Waze, a mapping service that Google acquired in 2013. The merger comes because the search engine big feels the strain to chop prices and consolidate operations, studies The Wall Road Journal.
Waze’s workforce of 500 workers will fall beneath Google’s Geo group, which oversees Maps, Earth and Road View, beginning Friday. Neha Parikh, Waze’s present CEO, will go away her position.
Google instructed WSJ it plans to maintain Waze as a standalone service — Waze is thought for its crowd-sourcing of en route info like places of pace cameras, cop vehicles and roadkill.
Google additionally stated it didn’t count on any layoffs as a part of the reorganization. Nonetheless, layoffs abound within the tech world, whether or not you’re a startup or an Amazon. And so they typically hit the toughest the place there are redundancies between groups. Certainly, Google stated it expects the restructuring of the totally different mapping companies to scale back overlap in mapmaking.
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has stated he hopes to make Google 20% extra productive by working “on fewer sources.” Talking at Code Convention in September, the chief stated the corporate had develop into slower because of over hiring and appeared to trace that merging groups that work on overlapping merchandise would assist the corporate keep on high.
