Infosys vs Google (Alphabet): which job is safer?
Layoff risk for Engineering roles in India, scored this morning from confirmed layoffs, WARN filings, earnings, hiring and news signals.
Infosys
INFY • IT Services
- 7-day move
- +1
- Employee reports
- 1 in 30d
- Safer than
- 33% of 78
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- None on record
No confirmed layoff recorded in the last six months.
Full Infosys reportGoogle (Alphabet)
GOOGL • Search & Cloud
- 7-day move
- +3
- Employee reports
- 2 in 30d
- Safer than
- 18% of 78
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- 3 · 202 roles
Most recent confirmed cut: Aug 5, 2026, 52 roles.
Full Google (Alphabet) reportInfosys vs Google (Alphabet), signal by signal
| Signal | Infosys | Google (Alphabet) |
|---|---|---|
| Layoff risk score | 32 / 100 | 42 / 100 |
| Risk band | MODERATE | MODERATE |
| 7-day move | +1 | +3 |
| 30-day move | 0 | +8 |
| Confirmed layoffs (1 yr) | 0 | 3 |
| Disclosed roles cut (1 yr) | 0 | 202 |
| WARN notices (7 d) | 0 | 6 |
| Layoff headlines (7 d) | 0 | 0 |
| Employee sentiment | stable | nervous |
| Employee-reported layoffs (30 d) | 1 | 2 |
| Employee mood votes (30 d) | 1 · 0% worried | 6 · 42% worried |
Green marks the safer side of each row. Lower is better on every risk signal except open roles and revenue growth, where more is the healthier reading.
90-day risk trend, side by side
Should you switch from Infosys to Google (Alphabet)?
Infosys scores 32/100 (moderate risk) against Google (Alphabet)'s 42/100 (moderate) for Engineering roles in India — a 10-point gap. What sits behind the gap: Google (Alphabet) has confirmed 202 roles across 3 announcements in the past year against none at Infosys, and Google (Alphabet) has 2 employee-reported layoffs in the last 30 days against 1 at Infosys.
Direction matters as much as level. Over the last 30 days Infosys's risk score held flat and Google (Alphabet)'s rose 8 points. That is widening the gap in Infosys's favour, so today's verdict is being reinforced rather than eroded.
On confirmed events, Infosys has no confirmed layoff in the past year. Google (Alphabet) has 3 confirmed layoffs totalling 202 disclosed roles, the latest on Aug 5. Confirmed cuts are the heaviest input to the score and they decay on a half-life rather than expiring, so a large recent round keeps weighing on a company for months while an old one fades gradually.
In the last seven days: Infosys added 1 point with no layoff, filing or headline behind it — the move came from the softer inputs the model also reads: news sentiment, share price and hiring activity. Google (Alphabet) added 3 points: a still-weighted cut of 52 roles on Aug 5 and 6 WARN notices filed with state labour departments this week.
Employee sentiment, blended from anonymous reports and the data signals, reads stable at Infosys and nervous at Google (Alphabet), though on only 3 employee reports between them in the last 30 days. Sentiment moves earlier than confirmed events but is far noisier, so treat it as a leading indicator rather than a score.
One caveat worth stating plainly: this compares employer-level risk, not your risk. Any engineering role on a revenue-critical team at the riskier company can be safer than a cost-centre role at the safer one. Read the score as the weather, not the forecast for your specific seat.