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Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Re... by alfalfasprout on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:43PM (#34634330)
Yeah but they were smaller then. Google's hiring aparatus is massive now. It's clearly far too tricky to surgically change hiring. They struggled as is with the hiring freezes.
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Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Re... by hgsgm on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:05PM (#34634562)
In what world is the VP not signing offer letters harder than firing staff already at work?
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Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Re... by alfalfasprout on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:18PM (#34634708)
Sure, that's basically a hiring freeze or slowdown. They did that. What they clearly suck at (btw I'm not defending them, just pointing out the reality) is refocusing hiring priorities. There are tons of candidates already in pipelines, etc. so that seems to be somewhat complex.
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Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Re... by kccqzy on Thursday February 02, 2023 @08:13PM (#34635836)
Middle management convincing the VP that this candidate super-aligns with company strategy (AI or whatever) and said VP must create an exception for the hiring freeze.
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