> recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies. The first response of businesses, big and small, to uncertainty is to pause everything they are doin

> recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies. The first response of businesses, big and small, to uncertainty is to pause everything they are doing to stock of the situation. Regardless of whether they are profitable or not. When that happens they pause hiring until they know what they are dealing with. You would have seen the news/grapevine that Twitter, Google, and Meta have paused hiring. It takes about a quarter for them to adjust and get back to business as usual. After that hiring managers will start putting pressure on execs to open up the head count or face missed deadlines. So I'd say give it 3-6 months as far as big, profitable businesses are concerned. As for unprofitable ones such as Uber; well it's going to be a tough ride. And it's been like that since going IPO.