According to a Bloomberg report illustrating an email from CEO Sundar Pichai sent to Google employees, the company is slowing down hiring through 2020 amid the CO-VOD 19.
While in 2019, Google Hired hired 20,000 employees, targeting a similar number for 2020, the company’s focus has changed to areas like data centers and machines.
“We believe now is the time to significantly slow down the pace of hiring, while maintaining momentum in a small number of strategic areas where users and businesses rely on Google for ongoing support, and where our growth is critical to their success,” Pichai said in the memo. “By dialing back our plans in other areas, we can ensure Google emerges from this year at a more appropriate size and scale than we would otherwise. That means we need to carefully prioritize hiring employees who will address our greatest user and business needs,” the company confirmed to The Verge.
Google is not the first big company to slow down hiring in the pandemic context, many other tech giants had, one of them being Microsoft who also paused recruitment.
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