Who's stepping up or slowing down hiring?

RALEIGH – The number of job openings at 40 of the Triangle’s most well-known employers has fallen below 4,000 open roles, but the “Help Wanted” signs remain up. Those numbers reflect the strength of the tech sector as shown in a new report ranking the Triangle as one of North America’s best technology job hubs in a new analysis.

And while Amazon will make layoffs and has instituted a hiring freeze, the most recent data from the latest WRAL TechWire Jobs Report reveals that not all companies are slowing down their hiring.

Fidelity Investments, for one, continues to hire in the Triangle, following announcements that the firm would hire hundreds and hundreds of workers in 2022. A spokesperson for the company told WRAL TechWire this week that as of October 24, Fidelity had hired 2,200 workers in North Carolina, including 800 employees who are now fulfilling technology roles.

Google, too, though making cuts in some areas of the company, continues to hire in the Triangle at the tech giant’s engineering hub.

Toshiba Global Commerce, Wolfspeed, Labcorp, Bandwidth, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina are all hiring for more job roles than they were a month ago, as well.

And even though IQVIA, Novo Nordisk, and MetLife have fewer openings than they did last month, they’re still hiring for hundreds of open roles in the region.

MetLife, for example, announced in August that it would hire 400 workers in the Triangle by the end of the year. A spokesperson for the company told WRAL TechWire on Monday that “we’re on track to meet that goal.”

“Our employees are our greatest asset,” said Bill Pappas, the head of global technology and operations at MetLife. “We are committed to investing in our employees for the jobs of today and tomorrow, while also being active in the marketplace, seeking out and building relationships with top talent.”

Still, overall, the number of open roles at the firms tracked weekly in the WRAL TechWire Jobs Report has fallen to 3,915 open roles, for only the second time this year, and also the second time in the last three weeks.

Here’s what’s happening.

Tech job openings in the Triangle

Amazon: 14 job openings in the Triangle, though some roles can be done remotely, according to the company's career page. That's down from 55 openings from a month ago, with the company announcing last week that it would pause hiring new corporate roles until 2023 and reported layoffs at the company. In addition, Amazon is closing multiple North Carolina facilities, though a company spokesperson told WRAL TechWire that Amazon was not laying off any workers as those facilities close. Workers at an Amazon facility in Garner continue efforts to unionize including speaking with other Amazon workers in the state.
Apple (corporate roles): 39 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, down 21 roles from a month ago. The company will put in place a hiring freeze for corporate roles, WRAL TechWire reported.
Bandwidth: 34 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page. The company will require its employees to work in-person five days per week, WRAL TechWire reported earlier this year.
BASF: 33 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina: 51 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, up 10 roles from a week ago and 10 roles from a month ago.
BD: 17 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page

Job openings fall across Triangle but study says tech firms keep hiring

Where are more Triangle jobs?

Cisco: 188 job openings in Research Triangle Park, according to the company's career page
Citrix: Citrix is updating their job portal website, according to the company. No data was available for this week, but there were 23 job openings in Raleigh at the end of October, according to a prior WRAL TechWire Jobs Report.
Credit Suisse: 64 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, up from 51 the week before. Stock prices plunged in early October and the company is required to pay a big $234 million fine. The company has 10 fewer job openings than a month ago.
Duke Energy: 6 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, down five open roles from a week ago.
Eaton: 78 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page. Earlier this year, the company announced plans to hire about 170 workers who will be based in the company's revamped Raleigh office.
Eli Lilly: 39 job openings in Research Triangle Park, according to the company's career page
Fidelity Investments: 635 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page. That's down 24 roles compared to a week ago but is 68 openings higher than a month ago.
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies: 37 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, down 27 job postings from a month ago
Google: 289 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page, down from 313 openings a week ago. The company is making cuts in some areas of the company but is expected to continue to hire for the Durham engineering hub, WRAL TechWire reported earlier this year. The company is hiring for 59 more positions than it was a month ago.
Grifols: 125 job openings in North Carolina, including in Durham and Clayton, according to the company's career page.
GlaxoSmithKline: 107 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page

More Triangle job openings

IBM: 6 job opening in RTP, according to the company's career page. The company said it would continue to hire in August.
IQVIA: 348 job openings in RTP, according to the company's career page (down 21 openings compared to a month ago)
Kyndryl: 64 job openings in RTP, according to the company's career page
Labcorp: 292 job openings in Burlington, N.C., according to the company's career page, an increase of 13 postings from a month ago
Lenovo: 182 job openings in Morrisville, according to the company's career page, down 76 job openings from a month ago.
MetLife: 115 job openings in Cary, according to the company's career page. MetLife told WRAL TechWire recently that it planned to hire 400 workers by New Year's Day.
Merck: 8 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
Microsoft: 13 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page, which is up a half dozen roles from a week ago. The company confirmed last month that it planned to make job cuts, with some 1,000 workers affected.
NetApp: 87 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, down 20 job openings from a month ago.
Novo Nordisk: 176 jobs in the Triangle, according to the company's career page, down 68 jobs from a week ago and down 14 jobs from a month ago. And even more jobs could be coming to the Novo Nordisk location in Johnston County, WRAL TechWire reported in October.
Novartis: 6 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page. The company is closing a Wilson plant.
Pendo: Nine job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page. The technology unicorn did announce there would be Pendo layoffs earlier this year totaling less than 5% of the company's workforce, and less than two dozen employees in Raleigh affected.
Pfizer: 94 job openings in North Carolina, according to the company's career page, down 23 open jobs from last week but down only nine open roles from a month ago

Even more Triangle job openings

Red Hat: 28 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page. Red Hat is owned by IBM and had a leadership change earlier this year.
RTI International: 126 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page, same as last week
SAS: 67 job openings in Cary, according to the company's career page, down 59 openings from a month ago. Some of the available roles are remote-based positions.
Science 37: 3 job openings that could be based in Raleigh, though some other roles are remote positions
Sensus (Xylem): 43 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
Spectrum: 35 job openings in the Triangle, according to the company's career page
Syneos Health: 9 job openings in Raleigh, according to the company's career page
Toshiba Global Commerce: 103 openings in Durham, according to the company's career page, up 38 roles from a month ago.
Wolfspeed: 264 job openings in Durham, according to the company's career page. The company announced a $5 billion investment that is expected to bring some 1,800 jobs to the region, as reported earlier this year by WRAL TechWire.
Worldwide Clinical Trials: 65 job openings in North Carolina, according to the company's careers page