Candor, a salary negotiating tool, has been crowdsourcing the recruitment landscape to help jobseekers understand who is hiring, freezing and firing.
March 30, 2020
Candor, a salary negotiating tool, has been crowdsourcing the recruitment landscape to help jobseekers understand who is hiring, freezing and firing.
The website traditionally crowdsources and validates salary data to help jobseekers negotiate salaries with new employers but has re-focused its efforts to build an in-depth picture of the recruitment landscape at a time where livelihoods are under threat from the coronavirus outbreak.
Co-founder of Candor David Chouinard is encouraging employees and jobseekers to write into [email protected] with updates to the hiring practices of firms around the world. With economies being shaken violently, this information could prove to be incredibly valuable to some.
The list itself is very extensive, though we have taken a snapshot of the technology, telecoms and media industry below:
Company | Status | Additional information |
Accenture | Hiring | Hiring for high-need roles, but final stage interviews which require face-to-face have been postponed |
Adobe | Freezing | Hiring freeze in place for three months from March 27 |
ADP | Hiring | Confirmed by Candor |
Akamai Tech | Hiring | |
Amazon | Hiring | Announced large hiring spree. Suggested business model more resilient to slowdown than ad-supported FANG companies |
American Express | Freezing | |
ASOS | Freezing | Offers have been rescinded |
Booking.com | Freezing | Company wide recruitment freeze, but Candor suggests there are internal rumours about layoffs |
Capgemini | Hiring | Both full-time employees and interns |
Cisco | Unknown | Mixed reports suggesting hiring, freezing and layoffs |
Dell Tech | Freezing | Recruitment freeze went into place w/b March 10 |
eBay | Hiring | Multiple reports of the company still hiring |
Hiring | Announced in recent internal Q&A that the company plans to continue hiring | |
Hiring | More than 20 reports confirming Google is still actively recruiting | |
HBO | Hiring | Reports of the company hiring ‘aggressively’ |
HERE Tech | Freezing | Unconfirmed reports of global recruitment freeze |
HPE | Freezing | Recruitment of non-critical roles on hold |
Infinera | Hiring | |
JustEat | Freezing | Confirmation from internal recruiter that the company is on a recruitment freeze |
KPMG | Unknown | Hiring in 20+ departments, but contractors are being scaled back and laid off |
Freezing | Hold on recruitment for non-critical roles | |
Microsoft | Hiring | Some restrictions in place, though actively hiring for cloud business units |
NBCUniversal | Freezing | |
Netflix | Freezing | |
NVIDIA | Freezing | |
Oracle | Freezing | Appears to be some hires in areas, but majority of interviews have been postponed until May |
PWC | Freezing | Announced during internal townhall that all recruitment is now on hold |
Salesforce | Hiring | Head of Talent has confirmed to Candor that the team is continuing to hire across the business |
Snap | Unknown | Mixed reports – some suggest offers have been postponed |
Spotify | Hiring | Leadership suggest only hiring for essential roles, though other reports suggest these are mainly R&D functions |
Tinder | Hiring | |
Freeing | ||
Uber | Freezing | Roles can be filled if an employee left prior to March 16, but freezing recruitment for all other positions |
Visa | Freezing | Candidate for role told all recruitment is on pause in feedback email |
VMWare | Freezing | Currently in recruitment freeze, but not related to COVID-19, ends in May. Reports that interviews are currently taking place |
Warner Media | Freezing |
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