Google laid off a few hundred within TA, which is the company canary. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/13/google-is-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-in-its-recruiting-organization.html It could be an isolated case, company wide, or industry wide. Wishing the best to everyone this year. #layoffs
Definitely seems to suggest less hiring expected in the near and mid term, event if no more layoffs are expected.
But but but I need that dream job at Google soon ๐ญ๐ญ
They are still hiring
Here comes copy cat Big Tech ๐ค
Other companies already did this lol
Another round of Simon says
Anyone knows much a google recruiter makes?
Nothing now that they've been laid off
Plenty, if they're bringing in staff level candidates that are signing offers. Very little if all they've got are fresh outs.
Is it only recruiters or other orgs too?
I love to see Recruiter getting layoff. Their job is shit and automatic too much.
"love" would be really insensitive
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Crowdstrike laid off Recruiters too
Wait that explains why they passed me off to another recruiter ๐
Google recruiters are always so responsive to the candidates. They always keep you updated unlike other company recruiters who act like they are doing you a big favour and are good at ghosting you.
Are you being sarcastic ?
My nvidia recruiter was definitely the trashiest; she's the second from top reason I went with Apple that needs me to relocate to SF compared to NV where I could've WFH.
The recruiter who worked with me got laid off in Jan, found another job, and then got laid off from there as well :( She was very supportive throughout my process so it sucks to see this happen
Recruiting is great as a supplementary income. If you have a spouse with income you can live off of and just save and invest the recruiter salary otherwise itโs too risky. Itโs always the first to go and not a dependable career. You can be an amazing recruiter and if the economy tanks your job is gone
One more layoff is on the cards, that's what I heard from a Director recently.
๐๐๐๐คก๐คก๐คก Directors donโt know anything. Nice try. Worry about your own shitty company
I think isolated because Google had too many recruiters to start with. It still has. Google has 3000 recruiters per Linkedin with only 2000 open jobs. Do the math. Even if the number of open jobs grows to 5000, Google won't need more than 1000 recruiters realistically. The hiring won't go above that for sure, hence, this is why Google did what did. As a matter of fact, I expect hiring to pick up by EOY, but ofc not to the pandemic levels (but it could maybe to 2012 levels).
Why the heck do they have so many recruiters?
Because early 2022 hiring was absolutely out-of-proportion crazy. Everyone and their mother got hired by Google in early 2022. Sadly, that train has passed. Since then Google has only reduced the number of recruiters in early 2023, but as we see, not by enough.