Google's boomerang year: 20% of AI software engineers hired in 2025 were ex-employees [CNBC]
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Google is engaged in a war for AI talent with companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The company has a large pool of former employees to mine, particularly after the largest layoffs in its history in 2023. In this article Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images With the AI talent wars heating up between companies like OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic, one way Google has been competing is by aggressively rehiring former employees. Some 20% of software engineers working on artificial intelligence that Google hired in 2025 were so-called boomerang employees, an increase from prior years, CNBC has learned. A Google spokesperson confirmed the statistic remains accurate as of December, and said the company saw a jump in the number of AI researchers coming from major competitors compared to 2024. John Casey, Google'
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