Alphabet's job losses will affect teams across the company including recruiting and some corporate functions, as well as some engineering and products teams
The comments by the IT minister are significant given the backdrop of slowdown headwinds in the West, the recent spate of layoffs by US tech giants, global market turmoil, and talks of tech winter
After a disappointing Q3 result, Meta's chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg hinted at a possible slowdown in the hiring process and rationalisation in employee numbers