The Perils of Working on the Boss's Pet Project.

The article discusses the impact on technology company employees when their new products fail. Examples of such projects include augmented reality glasses by Google, smartphone by Amazon and the adoption of metaverse by Facebook. At Amazon, teams working on the Alexa voice system, drones and automated stores supported by founder Jeff Bezos were affected by mass layoffs. Same happened to Google workers who worked on its autonomous trucks supported by former executives Larry Page and Sergey Brin.