Twitter, Apple, Amazon and more: Hiring freeze, job cuts at big tech companies – Times of India

Twitter will alert employees about their job status soon. While the social media giant is cutting jobs across geographies, it looks like other Silicon Valley giants are also looking to balance their sheets. Reports have emerged that Amazon and Apple have also paused hiring for many positions. Earlier this year, Meta ‘warned’ its employees about hiring freezes and job cuts. Even Google slowed “down the pace of hiring for the rest of the year.”
Here are some top technology companies that have announced either job cuts or hiring freezes or both.
Twitter job cuts
Twitter is set to start layoffs from Friday (November 4) across geographies. Reports suggest that the job cuts have been coming since Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform. On his first day, the Tesla chief fired CEO Parag Agrawal, the company’s top legal executive Vijaya Gadde, chief financial officer Ned Segal and general counsel Sean Edgett.
Apple freezes hiring
As per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has paused hiring for many jobs outside of research and development as a part of its plan to reduce budgets heading into next year. Citing people with knowledge of the matter, the report says that the iPhone maker took the step last month, ahead of a quarterly earnings report.
Apple says that it continues to hire “but given the current economic environment we’re taking a very deliberate approach in some parts of the business.” Reportedly, Apple is pausing hiring in corporate functions and standard hardware and software engineering roles. It seems to continue hiring in teams working on future devices and long-term initiatives.
Amazon not hiring in corporate roles
In a note emailed to employees and posted publicly on November 3, Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon announced that the company is pausing “new incremental hires in our corporate workforce.”
The development was reported by The New York Times and it said that the company won’t hire for the remainder of 2022 “in an effort to hedge its bets against a rough economic forecast.” The hiring freeze includes all corporate and technology positions for Amazon’s retail and operations, which account for the bulk of Amazon sales, the report noted.

Meta’s ‘warning’ on hiring freeze, more job cuts
Earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that there are some employees in the company that shouldn’t be here, hinting at job cuts. In September, Zuckerberg issued a ‘warning’ to employees saying that the company is freezing hiring and will “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year.” The Facebook-parent is looking to cut costs amid global economic slump.
Zuckerberg reportedly outlined sweeping plans to “restructure some teams to trim expenses and realign priorities” as well as “reduce headcount for the first time ever.”
Google slowing down hiring
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said earlier this year that the company is not immune to economic headwinds and it will be slowing the pace of hiring for the rest of the year. “For the balance of 2022 and 2023, we’ll focus our hiring on engineering, technical and other critical roles,” Pichai said in a company-wide email addressed to all Googlers.