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The theory goes that Greene and her senior software developers were the real "get" of the acquisition and could boost Google's enterprise cloud business. Hire was developed by a team from Bebop, a technology startup run by VMware founder Diane Greene and acquired by Google in 2015. One theory behind the decision to sunset Hire has to do with its creation. But they had happy clients paying for [Hire}, they just launched an enterprise version, and marketing for it has never slowed," said Joel Cheesman, a recruiting technology industry veteran and co-host of the popular Chad & Cheese Podcast. "Google shutting down services is not new. Google Hire is the latest casualty in a long line of products that have met an early demise due to the company's turning its attention to new ideas-leading many to joke about a "Google graveyard."Īnd while an innovator like Google might be expected to sunset products from time to time (and industry experts warned from the beginning this could happen to Hire), it seemed like Hire was growing firm roots. "Our standard export format is JSON, which is supported by most popular ATSs."
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"Google offers free Hire data-export service to all customers under a current contract," the company said. Google will assist in migrating applicant and candidate data to another recruiting platform for free.Contracts can be terminated immediately without penalty.Customers will not receive any additional charges for usage after their next bill.The product will be fully supported until its sunset date, but there are no new features forthcoming. Customers can continue to use Hire until the end of their contract or Sept."While Hire has been successful, we're focusing our resources on other products in the Google Cloud portfolio," the announcement read.Īdditional details from the announcement include: Just two years old, Hire by Google was primarily marketed to small and midsize businesses as a simplified ATS that easily integrates into Google's G Suite of offerings-Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs. According to a recent report from The Information, the company plans to "invest less in developing its Google Assistant voice-assisted search for cars and for devices not made by Google, including TVs, headphones, smart-home speakers, smart glasses and smartwatches that use Google's Wear OS software." Instead, the company reportedly plans to divert resources to its first-party hardware divisions.Google announced that it will be discontinuing its Hire by Google applicant tracking system (ATS) and recruiting software on Sept. By the end of this year, we'll turn down Duplex on the Web and fully focus on making AI advancements to the Duplex voice technology that helps people most every day."Īlthough the spokesperson did not reveal additional details, Google's decision to kill Duplex on the Web could be related to the company's alleged shift away from developing Google Assistant for non-Google devices.
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In a statement to TechCrunch, a Google spokesperson said, "As we continue to improve the Duplex experience, we're responding to the feedback we've heard from users and developers about how to make it even better. On the contrary, the company plans to divert resources from Duplex on the Web to other AI advancements for the Duplex voice technology. Any automation features enabled by Duplex on the Web will no longer be supported after this date." However, Google doesn't plan on deprecating other Duplex experiences.

A new note on Google's Duplex on the Web support page (via TechCrunch) states that the service "is deprecated, and will no longer be supported as of December, 2022.
