Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, one of the company’s most respected engineers and executives, is leaving the search giant as part of a broader AI leadership shake-up at the search giant.
Naturally, employees have had something to say about his shock departure.
Googlers peppered the company’s central message board with memes and posts about Dean’s departure, according to several posts seen by Business Insider. Some of them riffed on “Jeff Dean Facts” — a running gag where staff post ridiculous and exaggerated “facts” about Dean’s mythical status.
“Google is not losing Jeff Dean. Google is finally open-sourcing him for humanity,” one of the…
