<story><title>Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/google-to-slow-hiring-for-rest-of-2020-ceo-pichai-tells-staff</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>Before everyone starts painting bleak picture, reminder: Facebook&amp;#x27;s Sandberg announced last week or so that they are going to do accelerated hiring spree this year, opening massive 10,000 more positions! Google as well as Facebook both depend on ads so I&amp;#x27;m wondering why one is tightening the belt and other is moving full speed on expansion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llarsson</author><text>One of the best offensive strategies you can have is to make sure all talented people work for you, rather than the competition.&lt;p&gt;If smaller companies and startups fade away due to coronavirus-induced instability, making sure that their talent winds up with you is a smart move. If you are big enough to afford it, that is, which both of these companies arguably are -- regardless of whether their Q1 and Q2(?) results are worse this year than last.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/google-to-slow-hiring-for-rest-of-2020-ceo-pichai-tells-staff</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>Before everyone starts painting bleak picture, reminder: Facebook&amp;#x27;s Sandberg announced last week or so that they are going to do accelerated hiring spree this year, opening massive 10,000 more positions! Google as well as Facebook both depend on ads so I&amp;#x27;m wondering why one is tightening the belt and other is moving full speed on expansion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ronyeh</author><text>A lot of people are on Facebook and Instagram all day, stalking friends because there is not much else to do.&lt;p&gt;There are only so many Google searches I can do in a day. Many of them end on Amazon where I may or may not purchase something.</text></comment>