googlehas announced, like many other US tech companies, that the all new employees suspended. The block will remain in effect for at least two weeks. Prabhakar Raghavan, Senior VP of the company, sent an email to all employees, explaining the reasons behind this “painful decision”.
If Google doesn’t continue its regular hiring process with new interviews in the coming weeks, the company also added that new hires will be delayed in 2022. “We will use this time to assess our needs, in the future the search for new staff will be aligned with Google’s new needs,” explains Raghavan.
In the second quarter of 2022 alone, Google had hired more than 10,000 new employees worldwide. At the time Sundar Picahic, Google’s CEO, had explained that the company would have prioritized strengthening its divisions with assignments strictly related to technical functions (e.g. programmers and engineers), sacrificing other teams. Now the new employees are completely blocked.
Google isn’t the only company to stop the compulsive “shopping” of new talent. Meta and Apple have also blocked new employees. Other companies – such as Tesla, Netflix and TikTok – have taken a more drastic decision, announcing not only that they have stopped hiring, but also that they have left numerous employees and managers at home.
Source: Lega Nerd
