What are the open reqs for? SWE? DL? I think for some highly sought-after roles, you never fully freeze hiring. There are also several pipelines for hiring, and some may get shut-off while others remain. Diversity candidates may not see a hiring freeze, for instance.

So y'all do have a hiring freeze?

Right, a selective hiring freeze is still a hiring freeze.

Engineering would be the very last thing to get cut, as there will instantaneously be posts here and all over the internet.

Freezing non-tech hiring is the canary in the coalmine. Like when companies start scaling back freebies.

Once the downward trajectory starts it almost never reverses.

I'm sure the people downvoting you know this and are simply mad you called a spade a spade.