Google suspends all hiring for two weeks

Google has announced a two-week hiring freeze, according to an article published by The Information earlier today.

This comes after the company announced last week that it would slow down its hiring process for the rest of the year to review its overall hiring process. The company reportedly hired nearly 10,000 people in the second quarter alone, and full-quarter results are expected to drop on July 26.

"We will use this time to review our staffing needs and align with a new set of priority staffing requests for the next three months," Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google, said in an email. email obtained by The Information.

The freeze would not affect offers already made, but would put an end to future contract extensions.

Google's move aligns with last week's internal memo (featured by The Verge) in which CEO Sundar Pichai said the company was looking to be "more entrepreneurial" and redeploy resources into priority areas.

"As Sundar announced, we are slowing hiring for the rest of the year. With this in mind, we are suspending most new offers for two weeks to allow teams to prioritize their roles and work plans. 'hiring for the remainder of the year,' a Google spokesperson told TechCrunch via email.

Similar actions have already been taken at other tech companies, with some freezing hiring and even laying off employees.

Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has reportedly halted hiring of some of its engineering teams and made cuts across all areas of the business. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees there would be fewer resources available and employees should prepare to do more work.

Similarly, Twitter initially issued a hiring freeze, then laid off 30% of its talent acquisition team two months after the freeze began earlier this month.

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