#hiring

https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/oracle-nashville-world-headquarters-reported-recruitment-struggles-tech/

Is LP out ? LBT hired Qualcomm SVP Eric Demers GPU leader

I swear this place gets worse every day. It does not matter who you talk to, audit, risk, commercial, wealth or the random person in the kitchen the complaints and misery never end. The reasons are all over the place and true from everything I have seen and experienced. I hope they start fixing the culture. They won’t. They are not hiring when people leave. Makes you wonder if they want to be sold.

Att Cyber security Jobs were and are still being posted but are they being filled?
I recall a rename of att cyber security group to “level blue “ last ear before the vacancy postings.
Any insights?

I'm starting to lose hope that anybody is actually hiring.

Hey guys, I’m hearing that around some time this year AT&T will be hiring for premier service consultant work from home again. Has anyone heard this same info on customer service jobs continuing work from home ?

Positions open in tech, thoughts? How stable is the department and is it worth applying to?

121 open positions alone in Waterloo, OpenText is hiring lots

Does anyone have visibility of how far along is the offer process. It's the second week of Jan, are we at the point where all first round offers out and we are dealing with second choice and separation? Anyone getting communication this week?

I can’t wait to nab one of them cushy wfh jobs.

After so many layoffs, needing to go to market to fill the position of Principal Applied Scientist in Enterprise AI team is not a good look:

https://careers.chevron.com/en/job/houston/principal-applied-scientist-enterprise-ai/38138/90322089824

What happened to the robust pipeline of talent that was spruiked so enthusiastically by IT leaders only a few years ago? What happened to all the digital scholar wunderkinds who were going to change the company?

It looks especially bad after so many other high-profile departures from Chevron, especially in the IT and data segments.

And who in their right mind with those skills and located in the US would work for Chevron?

(I wonder if whoever lands the role will have to do a Skills Insights assessment, and whether they will be allowed to score above “fundamentals” with their lack of Chevron experience?)

Many have commented on the change in culture and how the company has changed for the worse. Does a lot of this have to do with the newer hires over the past few years?

The company has hired a lot of new people and to be fair some have been good. However in many cases it looks like the company’s hired a lot of mediocre employees. It feels like the company used to hire the best of the best. Recently it feels like the scraps are getting picked up.

What does everyone think?

I see job postings in London & India propping up for Product Management. Whats new with Teradata?

There are so many H1b employees in Nike already and this is still continuing.
When Americans are losing jobs and so many qualified engineers are looking for work we continue hiring fresh h1b graduates.
This is wrong.

We are so short-staffed right now it's unreal. I'm not sure who they're hiring these days, but the new folks in my store have zero experience and just stand around for most of the day. It's nothing like it used to be. It makes the job ten times harder for the rest of us.

Companies are frozen by tariff uncertainty and AI expectations, while workers are stuck in a job market with very little hiring or firing. New figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the hiring rate has dropped to 3.2%, the lowest in more than a decade, apart from the pandemic period.

https://www.ibtimes.com/job-layoffs-surge-hiring-rate-hits-record-low-how-survive-it-3794854

How will the company look in two years, OT is still hiring lots all around the world at the moment

If the company was going to get smaller or fail then they wouldn't be hiring

15$ plus an hour no degree needed. Now you know how we are backfilling all the management positions recently Rifed!

I recently saw a list of at least 50 new hires and 96% of them were TN or H1-B. Ford is hiring droves of them.

Huge upsurge coming , massive growth opportunity ford will go strong in 26 under great leadership. Massive recruitment for mechanics coming soon. No more h1b after this

What happened to the Fiserv Kansas office opening in 2025? I thought Kansas office was going to hire 2000 employees. Now I find no mention of this office.

In 2007 Chavez nationalized all heavy oil. Two of which were Petrozuata and Corocoro that were ConocoPhillips. Venezuela was ordered to pay CP, call it $9 billion for damages. Do you think with the recent US will run Venezuela, CP will be looking to get back in? Then they can hire me again?

Gartner had a mass layoff in TA end of September (not performance based) and now I see Gartner is advertising jobs on LinkedIn for recruiters. How can they layoff staff, then post same job less than 3 months later?

Does it seem like most new Technology hires (senior level) are from Bank of NY? From what I understand after talking to some colleagues over at BNY, they weren't sad to see them go. Now they're WFs problem...

Well.....just applied for a position at the HO - totally qualified. Submitted my application and within 5 seconds (I'm NOT exaggerating) - it stated my status as "NO LONGER UNDER CONSIDERATION."

I sent an email to the Talent Acquisition department and asked how it is that a response was sent immediately, when no recruiter would have had time to review?

The response / answer I received was "it was auto-disposition based on your answers."

Well, the ONLY questions I answered were regarding my race (white) and s-x.

https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/jobs-hiring-growth-plans-2026-b2891218.html#uqvtmsinz1budfib6xbcfgarv6wz8sh

How are we still hiring people? What are they telling candidates to make the job sound good, now that the word has gotten out about all the cr-p we go through on a daily basis? I can't see why anyone would accept an offer here right now.

Has anyone ever accepted a new position only to discover the day-to-day reality was completely different from the job description or what was discussed in interviews? I'm trying to avoid that situation again. What are the best ways you've found to get an honest sense of the work environment and the actual role before you sign an offer?

https://h1bfacts.com/explorer?q=exxon

filter by 2025. quite a few high salary ones in spring. the way the job market is, no way these can't be filled by a US citizen.

Company's biggest downfall was implementing DEI in hiring/promotion.

This is what happens when you hire/promote incompetent people just because they are a particular race/ethnicity as opposed to hiring/promoting someone of their merit.

Verizon will be fined millions of $$$ for this and will continue to suffer as you have these people in top positions not knowing nor being qualified for the positions that they are in.

Message to the hire ups and decision makers of Verizon: Hire and promote those who earned it, not because their skin is darker.

When can we expect more jobs to be posted by TIAA? Jan. 2026? February?

The Trump administration has launched investigations into the use of diversity initiatives in hiring and promotion at major U.S. companies, built on the novel use of a federal law meant to punish businesses that cheat the government.

The civil probes are proceeding under the umbrella of the False Claims Act, which has traditionally been used to go after contractors who bill the government for work that was never performed or inflate the cost of services rendered.

Now the Justice Department is embracing the theory that holding a federal contract while still considering diversity when hiring is, in effect, fraud against the government that entitles it to recoup potentially millions of dollars.

This environment means many employees are
clinging to their jobs. At International Business
Machines, employees are leaving the
technology giant at the lowest rate in 30 years,
CEO Arvind Krishna said. In the U.S., voluntary
attrition at IBM is now under 2%, a decline from
the typical 7%.

“People aren’t looking to change jobs,” Krishna
said. “That then leads to less hiring because
people aren’t leaving.”
AK's not seeing enough natural attrition, eh? No doubt he has a remedy for that. . .

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/2026-job-hiring-growth-plans-10bc3470

Large employers indicate that they either want to maintain the size of their teams next year or let go of workers; ‘Everybody’s afraid for their jobs’

By: Chip Cutter
Dec. 27, 2025 9:00 pm ET

The corporate playbook for next year? Don’t hire.

Companies are looking to stay lean into 2026 while relying on technology to take on more tasks. Forecasters at jobs site Indeed expect relatively minimal hiring growth in 2026 and e-commerce platform Shopify SHOP -0.16%decrease; red down pointing triangle
and Chime Financial CHYM -0.53%decrease; red down pointing triangle

are already vowing to keep the size of their employee bases roughly flat.

At a gathering of CEOs in Midtown Manhattan this month organized by the Yale School of Management, 66% of leaders surveyed said they planned to either fire workers or maintain the size of their existing teams next year. Only a third indicated they planned to hire.

“You’re going to see a lot of wait and see,” said Chris Layden, chief executive of staffing company Kelly Services. “Some of the looming uncertainty will mean that we’re going to continue to see an investment in capital over people.”

Companies haven’t been in the hiring mood for months. The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November, its highest in four years. While the U.S. added jobs in fields such as healthcare and education in 2025, signs are growing that the white-collar labor market is now seizing up. A range of prominent employers such as Amazon.com, Verizon, Target and United Parcel Service have cut white-collar roles in recent months, adding to the unease among workers.

The reluctance to add staff reflects concerns about the economy, along with the belief that artificial intelligence could handle more work inside major companies. Other employers hired too many people after the pandemic and are still correcting for that.

“We’re close to zero job growth. That’s not a healthy labor market,” Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said at the Yale summit. “When I go around and talk to CEOs around the country, everybody’s telling me, ‘Look, we’re not hiring because we’re waiting to try to figure out what happens with AI. What jobs can we replace? What jobs do we don’t?’”

The pause in hiring could be temporary if companies decide they do require more people to meet their growth goals. But the mood now, Waller said, is that companies simply don’t need any extra labor.

“Everybody’s afraid for their jobs. I’m dead serious,” said Waller, a candidate to become the next chair of the Federal Reserve.

This environment means many employees are clinging to their jobs. At International Business Machines, employees are leaving the technology giant at the lowest rate in 30 years, CEO Arvind Krishna said. In the U.S., voluntary attrition at IBM is now under 2%, a decline from the typical 7%.

“People aren’t looking to change jobs,” Krishna said. “That then leads to less hiring because people aren’t leaving.”

At a conference recently, a top executive at Shopify was asked to describe the company’s hiring plans and he gave an increasingly common answer. “I don’t see us next year needing to increase head count in any way,” Chief Financial Officer Jeff Hoffmeister said. “It has been over two years we’ve been at this head count. As I look to next year, I think we can continue to be disciplined on head count.”

At Wells Fargo, CEO Charlie Scharf said this month the bank expected to have fewer people as it heads into next year. The company’s workforce has fallen from roughly 275,000 people in 2019 to about 210,000 today as executives have cut costs and overhauled the bank.

Scharf said he expects AI’s impact on staffing levels to be “extremely significant,” though it could take years to play out. He said many executives have been afraid to lay out the damage that AI could do to the job market. “No one wants to stand up and say that we should have—we’re going to have lower head count in the future,” Scharf said. “It’s a difficult thing to say.”

Wells Fargo will continue to retrain its workforce and use “attrition as our friend,” he said, but change is clear. “It’s not going to totally replace humans, but it does create an opportunity to do things significantly different,” he said.

Economists at Indeed recently updated hiring scenarios for the year ahead, expecting more of the same. Analyzing job openings along with estimates for economic growth, they now predict the unemployment rate to hover around 4.6% in 2026. “We’re not expecting things to change a whole lot in 2026,” said Laura Ullrich, director of economic research at Indeed.

Some of the weakest industries for new job openings include those in well-paid fields such as data analytics, software development, marketing and entertainment, she said. Job postings are stronger in industries such as healthcare and construction.

Though there has been a pullback in white-collar employment, Ullrich said the current dynamics may eventually need to change. If the economy expands next year, some employers may decide they need to hire more people to grow.

“You can’t have this low-hire, low-fire (environment) with growing GDP for too long,” she said. “At some point, something has to shift.”

I am reminded that we each have a little Karl Marx in us. For someone who is far from a Marx fan, let alone apologist, something inside kinda understands his view point.

How could I not in a world where there will soon be a trillionaire, and we are hearing news that the economy grew 4.3% in a country where months even years go on without adequate employment. For some, being unemployed in a so called best country in the world is hard to grasp, especially if you are able bodied, and willing and want to work.

If you are in precarious situation like so many, where variables that allow for adequate employment such as skills, right training/education, and employers willing to add to their personnel are lacking, news that GDP and the economy growing appear to be a mirage.

This is not whining, but rather a desperate realization that this is the new reality setting in. For so many we have to contend with the fact that sitting in an office, engaging in PI planning sessions, sizing stories, pushing code through production is going to be a thing of the past.

The hiring in today's job environment is happening in areas that people in third world countries would laugh at. I'm talking about jobs that would barely help you pay your mortgage. Jobs that sooner or later will have you dip into your retirement accounts out of desperation because savings have eroded.

I wonder if Karl Marx knew how to count to one trillion. Because as the great book says, those who have abundance will have abundance aplenty, and those who have no two pennies to rub together will continue to have nothing. So many of us are in this last group.

Don’t expect a new job opening until April or later. No be one is hiring.

I live in Massachusetts and I am considering applying for AI/ML job in their Hopkinton campus (or Franklin one). I expected at least $250K total annual compensation. Can Dell provide me and Engineering job with such salary in MA?

I have been trying to decide which job offer to accept and have been using this forum to try and understand salary structure and promotion opportunity. From what I can see, it seems like once you accept a job at Dell you are stuck with minimal pay increases unless you apply for a different internal role. Is that correct?

• Am I best off pushing hard for my starting salary since it won’t change much?

• Does the salary I’m offered impact colleagues yearly bonuses and pay increase?

• Additionally, is there any other important information around salary I should know?

Concerned what I see with companies this year with hiring & retaining H1B status employees. Trump’s shift on H1B quotas & increased cost is really encouraging most companies to avoid sponsoring H1B anymore. What moves will Cisco do with H1Bs in 2026, I getting more worried for 2026…

Why has there been so much hiring and new roles this month especially in sales and commercial roles ??

Also why have we hired soo many SAP skills cant remember the last decent SAP win in the uk?

How are we hiring leaders in a regular basis in tech while we’re laying off people? And they all seem to come from the same few companies- bunch of leaders poaching their buddies from BoNY etc. what a joke.

I guess they’re cleaning house and giving buddies higher paying jobs. They aren’t going to fix anything tho.