What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?
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What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?
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#2And Oracle, and pretty much all the FANG MAAMAs except Amazon.
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#4I'm not sure I buy that they're actually on a hiring freeze, but I may be wrong. The day before it was announced I got a text from a google recruiter literally saying feel free to contact me on 8/8 (after the freeze is supposedly finished). I feel like this was definitely a show for the shareholders, and a way to drop your dead weight. Everyone seems worried about employee productivity and profitably all of a sudden, or at least they're pretending to.
My advice is only if you know what you're doing, there's always a job for you.
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#5Didn’t Sundar just recently demand increased productivity? Sounds like he’s setting the stage for layoffs.
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#6Didn’t Sundar just recently demand increased productivity? Sounds like he’s setting the stage for layoffs.
Maybe give everyone leetcode problems - that's what they trained for.
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#7I'm not sure I buy that they're actually on a hiring freeze, but I may be wrong. The day before it was announced I got a text from a google recruiter literally saying feel free to contact me on 8/8 (after the freeze is supposedly finished). I feel like this was definitely a show for the shareholders, and a way to drop your dead weight. Everyone seems worried about employee productivity and profitably all of a sudden,…
> The day before it was announced
These recruiters may have heard the news at the same time it was announced.
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#8My hunch is that these companies are cargo-culting their strategies. The hiring freeze is as essentially a gut reaction. If one starts with layoffs, others will follow. The real problem is that companies of the Google scale will always need new engineers for particular projects and have a surplus for others. A global freeze or even layoffs simply don't fit.
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#9Didn’t Sundar just recently demand increased productivity? Sounds like he’s setting the stage for layoffs.
Inevitable. Working 2 hours a day while getting paid 300K+ is unsustainable. Most of the Googlers I know have been spending 20% of their time on Google and 80% on side projects for the past year now.
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#10My process with Google just stopped. No further update form the recruiter. It just went on silence. Sometimes it feels like I made the right choice not changing to Klarna early this year and staying at my current work.