you come home from the grocery store, you bought frozen goods. you are unpacking, and think you're done, so you sit down in your couch to relax, a couple of minutes later you realize you forgot to put the frozen stuff in the freezer, do you just go "oh well i dun fucked up, nothing to be done here, i'd best just admit defeat and let my wife fire me from grocery duty"
No one is perfect.
The premise does not make sense to me. See:
>No one is perfect.
Specifically being able to predict the future a few years during and after an unprecedented pandemic.
So you're saying that all these people who were mistakenly hired by Google and were now let go, shouldn't have been let go?
It is possible that the suboptimal decision of overhearing was made in such a manner such that indicates the decision maker may not be beneficial to the organization, but not necessarily.
A hiring decision is a huge change in an employee's life. People uproot their lives, may have to move away from friends and family. They might need visas.
For a big company CEO, getting fired changes basically nothing material. They still have millions of dollars, they most definitely aren't on a work visa.
A rich, profitable company for sure can afford and should try to salvage every suboptimal hiring decision, at least once.
Except for the CEO, that basically gets all the money and no real risk. A CEO will never starve, will never get kicked out of the country, etc.