Candor crowdsources the recruitment landscape

Candor, a salary negotiating tool, has been crowdsourcing the recruitment landscape to help jobseekers understand who is hiring, freezing and firing.

Jamie Davies

March 30, 2020

3 Min Read
Candor crowdsources the recruitment landscape

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Offers have been rescinded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

Facebook

Hiring

Announced in recent internal Q&A that the company plans to continue hiring

Google

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

LinkedIn

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

Twitter

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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