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Google announced planned layoffs of 12,000 employees on Friday.
An internal memo states the company is only hiring for a "very limited number of critical roles."
Almost 50% of open roles on the company's careers website are for Google Cloud.

Google announced dramatic job cuts on Friday, with CEO Sundar Pichai telling employees the 12,000-person reduction was necessary because the company overhired during the pandemic. Headcount soared in recent years. Now, with interest rates rising and companies pulling back on ad spend, Google is in a very different economic climate.

Besides eliminating jobs across the organization, the company is also paring back hiring, and has cut many long-term bets.

Some areas, though, remain relative bright spots. Its cloud computing division continues to grow, and the company is investing heavily in AI, with the New York Times reporting that Google intends to unveil 20 new products that incorporate AI and build a chatbot feature into its search engine. Pichai emphasized continued investment in AI in a blog post announcing the layoffs, and The Information reported that almost nobody from Google's Brain AI lab was let go.

An internal layoff FAQ for employees, reviewed by Insider, stated that the company will continue to hire for "a very limited number of critical roles."

The Google document pointed staff to an internal site, Grow, and the company's public careers website for "current open, priority roles." Employees who have been laid can apply for open roles posted on the public careers site, but not via the internal Grow listings because these people are now considered "external candidates, the FAQ stated.

As of late Friday, the search giant's public careers website showed 969 open positions, providing an indication of which departments are deemed critical as Google attempts to get back on solid ground. Overall, Google appears to be playing it safe by investing in its core properties. Below are areas where the company continues to hire.

Cloud

Google Cloud, the division that rents computing power, storage and other service over the internet, appears to be the least impacted by Friday's layoffs. Out of the 969 openings at Google, roughly 463, or nearly 50%, are within the Cloud division.

Cloud has seen consistent growth year-over-year, but Google is fending off a new threat from Microsoft, which has invested in OpenAI, the creator of the ChatGPT chatbot, and intends to offer the generative language technology to enterprise customers through its Azure cloud product. Google will need to offer technology that developers want if it hopes keep them paying for cloud services — and to keep anyone from threatening its search business with programs that can answer queries more easily.

Many of the open roles at Google Cloud relate to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Recruiting is said to be less restrictive for the Cloud division, and openings on Google's career site indicate as much. The hope on the part of Google is that its cloud business could one day rival that of AWS, which is a money-printing machine for Amazon.

YouTube

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Though video ad revenue has fallen amid the economic downturn, YouTube remains the premiere destination for online video, and Google continues to make investments into a wide array of video products. The company has its own competitor to TikTok, called Shorts, as well as YouTube TV, a paid streaming service, and Premium, which removes ads for $15 a month.

To better compete with TikTok, YouTube creators will soon able to take a cut of ad revenue against their Shorts videos. YouTube is also testing free, ad-supported video channels that would feature movies and shows from major studios.

It's unsurprising then that there are more than 80 YouTube job openings listed as it invests more in a business that generates roughly $7 billion in revenue a quarter.

Pixel

Google has roughly 30 open positions working on development related to its hardware products, primarily Pixel smartphones and wearables. Android remains a key way Google gets its search engine into the hands of users, and though the Pixel lineup has never sold terribly well, The Information reported in October that Google is looking to double down on its own brand as Apple takes away market share from Samsung.

On the Android software and operating system side, Google's career website listed a handful of jobs late on Friday, including senior software engineering roles for mobile and the Google Assistant.

The company pays Apple up to $12 billion a year to be the default search engine on iPhones, so having more people on Android is crucial.

There appear to be no open positions working on Google's Nest lineup of smart home products.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence

A woman looks at a heatmap of the brain during an exhibition — A woman looks at a picture of the brain.

Across the organization, Google has many openings for roles that call for experience with machine learning and artificial intelligence. CEO Pichai reportedly issued a "code red" in response to excitement surrounding ChatGPT, directing teams across the company to work on weaving AI into their products.

In his Friday blog post announcing the layoffs, Pichai said Google pivoted to being an "AI-first company" years ago. But today it finds itself on the back foot as people wonder whether a tool like ChatGPT, which can directly answer many questions with ease, might unseat Google from its search dominance. That seems unlikely, but the company isn't taking any chances.

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