Ask HN: do you know what companies are having hiring freezes?

8 pointsby maienvor 18 Jahren9 comments

as titled, I know SAP, MSFT, CISCO are on hiring freeze, what else? Yahoo I suppose, what about Oracle?

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Two months ago, I heard that VMware had a hiring freeze on. I don't know what the situation is now.

dell (announced), aapl (according to friends), goog (announced), yhoo (assumed)

Dilpilvor 18 Jahren

I just got back from a Google recruiting session where the guy announced that there was not a hiring freeze nor was there a plan to have a hiring freeze.

lackervor 18 Jahren

Google does not have a hiring freeze.

maienvor 18 Jahren

wow. I am surprised by aapl, they have 25 billions in cash~ thanks for the list!

dfarmvor 18 Jahren

Dell has billions in cash too; they get that way from not spending...

Crazy times to be looking for work knock on wood

maienvor 18 Jahren

or it is the best time?

vakselvor 18 Jahren

pretty much all of them

markessienvor 18 Jahren

Airbus.