Comments on: Employment outlook gets murkier at tech companies

Amid a "hiring chill" in Redmond, CNET News checked in with other big tech giants on their personnel plans.

[smokified]

lets all ******* panic....that'll get the economy fired up again...

[diep123]

While large companies are laying off or downsizing, startup companies are hiring like mad. This is the reason we started www.HotStartupJobs.com. Yes, the risk is also there, but at least you will have a job.

[rmcdonough]

I read: we'll take on good people, but we're also taking the economic down turn as an opportunity to shed some dead weight. This headline is grossly misleading, especially after reading the statements from each company. With the exception of Dell, none of these companies say "we're not hiring".

Like diep123 said, smaller firms are hiring like crazy. I get calls from recruiters on a daily basis at this point. Furthermore, my current employer is actively looking fill many open positions. So let's not panic, it doesn't help.

Ryan-

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[ITpsycho]

It wasn't stated in the article, but IBM has cut many, many, many positions held by contractors - I'm speaking from firsthand experience as a contractor who was cut (laid off) after almost 5 years there - almost every contractor I know, regardless of what work they did for IBM, has been cut. For the most part, all of our jobs have gone overseas to cheaper workers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, India or China (this of course, after we trained them). I'm not complaining, it was a great 5 years (thanks IBM!) and I'd go back in a second if asked.

[geo11101]

Eric Schmidt is the biggest Mafia puppet in the US. He is bad news for apple users. http://endmafia.com