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谷歌 CEO 于近日发给员工的内部邮件中表示,将撤回一些部门的招聘,并放缓招聘步伐。
CEO Sundar Pichai 于上周二向员工发送了一封电子邮件,确认了谷歌将在今年剩余时间里放慢招聘速度的消息。Pichai 表示,谷歌也不能对经济下滑带来的影响“免疫”。在接下来的 2022 年和 2023 年, 公司将专注于招聘“工程、技术和其他关键职位” 。(详情请查看文章末尾处的邮件原文)
这不意味着公司停止招聘 !只是谷歌可能会减缓一些项目的进展,公司对新员工的申请审核也将更加严格。而且,对于 SDE 此类技术与工程相关的职位,并不在大刀阔斧停止招聘的名单中。
但整体 Headcount 的减少是必然的:据一位知情人士透露,公司领导层指示一些经理 返还一定比例的第三季度 Headcount Grants 员工津贴 。他们表示,减少的 headcount 不到正常计划的一半, 一些空缺职位可能会推迟到今年晚些时候 。

其他科技巨头也做出了类似的反应。据 Reuters 报道, Meta 最近也修改了招聘计划, 将新工程师招聘的预期数量减少了 30% 。CEO 扎克伯格告诉员工要为经济急剧下滑做好准备(点击查看相关推文)。微软和亚马逊的零售业务也削减了下半年的招聘目标。
但削减就是表示有机会,只是变少了。这就需要求职者们在众多候选者中变得更加突出。还是我们一直跟大家重复的话, 最关键的是提升自身素质与能力 ,好好学习才是正经事。
入职大厂不是终点,收到Offer信也不代表一切万事大吉,虽然我们没办法预知环境变动, 但我们可以通过不停地学习保持自己的核心竞争力,尤其在如今经济下行 、各种减缓招聘/冻结招聘/裁员的消息不断冒出的特殊时期。
下面是Pichai发给员工的邮件(英文原版):
Hi Googlers,
Hard to believe we're already through the first half of 2022. It's the right opportunity to thank everyone for the great work so far this year, and to share how my Leads and I are thinking about H2.
The uncertain global economic outlook has been top of mind. Like all companies, we're not immune to economic headwinds. Something I cherish about our culture is that we've never viewed these types of challenges as obstacles. Instead, we've seen them as opportunities to deepen our focus and invest for the long term.
In these moments, I turn to our mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. It's what inspired me to join the company 18 years ago, and what makes me so optimistic about the impact we are able to have on the world. Knowledge and computing are how we drive our mission forward. That's the lens we use to decide where to invest — whether it's in areas like Search, Cloud, YouTube, Platforms and Hardware, the teams that support them, or in the AI that enables more helpful products and services.
We help people and society when we focus on what we do best, and do it really well. The investments we've made in the first half of the year reflect this vision. In Q2 alone, we added approximately 10,000 Googlers, and have a strong number of commitments for Q3 start dates which reflects, in part, the seasonal college recruiting calendar. These are extraordinary numbers, and they show our excitement about long-term opportunities, even in uncertain times.
Because of the hiring progress achieved so far this year, we'll be slowing the pace of hiring for the rest of the year, while still supporting our most important opportunities. For the balance of 2022 and 2023, we'll focus our hiring on engineering, technical and other critical roles, and make sure the great talent we do hire is aligned with our long-term priorities.
Moving forward, we need to be more entrepreneurial, working with greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger than we've shown on sunnier days. In some cases, that means consolidating where investments overlap and streamlining processes. In other cases, that means pausing development and re-deploying resources to higher priority areas. Making the company more efficient is up to all of us — we'll be creating more ways for you all to engage and share ideas to help, so stay tuned.
Scarcity breeds clarity — this is something we have been saying since the earliest days of Google. It's what drives focus and creativity that ultimately leads to better products that help people all over the world. That's the opportunity in front of us today, and I'm excited for us to rise to the moment again.
——Sundar
邮件中文翻译版:
嗨,谷歌员工们,
很难相信我们已经度过了2022年上半年。现在是个合适的机会来感谢大家今年目前的优秀工作,并与大家分享我和公司领导层对下半年的思考。
全球经济的不稳定一直是人们最关心的问题,我们也未能幸免于经济下滑所产生的影响。我所珍视的企业文化是,我们从来没有把这些类型的挑战视为障碍。相反,我们将此视为深化公司重点和长期投资的机会。
在这种时刻,我将注意力转向了谷歌使命:组织整合世界上的信息,并让所有人都能获得并使用这些信息。这是 18 年前激励我加入公司的原因,也是让我对我们能够对世界产生的影响感到如此乐观的原因。知识和计算是推动我们的使命前进的方式。这是我们用来决定投资方向的视角,无论是在搜索、云计算、YouTube、平台和硬件等领域,还是在支持这些领域的团队,或是在能够提供更多有益产品和服务的人工智能领域。
当我们专注于自己最擅长的事情,并把它做得非常好时,我们就会为人们和社会提供帮助。我们在今年上半年进行的投资反映了这一愿景。仅在第二季度,我们就增加了大约1万名Googlers,并且在今年第三季度,我们还承诺将有更多新员工,这在一定程度上反映了大学招聘的季节性。这些都是非同寻常的数字,它们显示了我们对长期机会的关注,即使在这个不确定的时代下也未曾变更。
今年上半年,我们在招聘方面取得了良好的进展,我们将在今年下半年放缓招聘的步伐,并继续为我们最重要的机会提供支持。今明两年,我们将把招聘重点放在工程、技术和其他关键职位上,并确保我们所招聘的优秀人才与我们的长期优先事项能够相一致。
展望未来,我们需要更具创业精神,更有紧迫感、饥饿感,更加敏锐,而不再是像我们在太平日子里表现出来的那样。在某些情况下,这意味着公司将在投资重叠的地方进行整合并精简流程。在其他情况下,这意味着暂停开发并将资源重新部署到优先级更高的领域。能否使公司变得更有效率取决于大家,我们将为大家创造更多参与和分享想法的方式,请继续关注公司的政策。
稀缺造就清晰,这是我们从谷歌刚刚起步的时候就一直在说的事情。它是推动专注和创造力的动力,最终带来更好的产品,为全人类提供帮助。这就是今天摆在我们面前的机会,我很高兴我们能再次站在处于这样一个时刻。
无论如何,经济下行等的客观因素是我们难以预料并做出反应的,而作为科技行业的求职者和打工人,为了克服这些客观因素所带来的影响, 必须花更多时间与心思去提升自我 。只有自身实力强的时候,才不必害怕这些“动荡”!
本文参考:Bloomberg & Insider