Google's boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025.Across the industry, employee boomerangs are up, according to data published earlier this year by ADP Research, with the sector it classifies as information showing the starkest numbers.Google has a large pool of ex-employees to mine, particularly after its largest ever round of layoffs in early 2023, when parent company Alphabet cut 12,000 jobs, reducing ...