Comment by xen0

Anecdotally, the average member of the team I'm in (in Europe) is probably mid-30s with at least 10 years of experience.

Less than 5 years of experience at Google is, to be fair, common. But the company doubled in size over that time, so it's inevitable. And higher turn over in tech is common (and I don't think that is necessarily reflective of anything other than the fact it's easy to get another job as a software engineer).

I can't state much on the layoffs because my team was not heavily affected.