Google freezes hiring; Joins Meta, Spotify, Snap as recession fears hit Big Tech

Google will slow down hirings for the remainder of 2022, telling employees that the company would have to “be more entrepreneurial”. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo to employees, informing them about the slowing down in hiring and urged them to work with “greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger than we’ve shown on sunnier days”.

According to the memo, Google would not be entirely freezing hiring — it would continue to hire for “engineering, technical and other critical roles”. However, Pichai said the pullback would mean “pausing development and re-deploying resources to higher priority areas”.