A group of YouTube Music staff found out that they had been made redundant while speaking at a council meeting in Texas, urging councillors to support them in their efforts to get the Google-owned company to negotiate with their union. Google says they were contractors whose agreements have expired
It was sort of like this when I worked for Cisco, although they’d generally hire you officially after a little while. For me it only took around 6 months but for most of my coworkers it was around 3 years.