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

[maien]

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

[iamelgringo]

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

[alaskamiller]

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

[Dilpil → alaskamiller]

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.

[lacker → alaskamiller]

Google does not have a hiring freeze.

[maien → alaskamiller]

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

[dfarm → maien]

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

Crazy times to be looking for work knock on wood

[maien → dfarm]

or it is the best time?

[markessien]

Airbus.

[vaksel]

pretty much all of them