• Google is slowing hiring for the rest of 2022, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a staff memo.

• "The uncertain global economic outlook has been top of mind," wrote Pichai.

• The company will focus on hiring engineering, technical and other "critical roles" through 2023.

Google is slowing hiring across some of its divisions due to the "uncertain global economic outlook" that has been "top of mind," CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a memo to staff on Tuesday.

"Like all companies, we're not immune to economic headwinds," Pichai wrote in the memo.

The tech giant added 10,000 employees in the second quarter of 2022 and has "a strong number of commitments" for start dates in the third quarter, he wrote. But Google will be slowing its pace of hiring for the rest of the year and will focus on hiring engineering, technical, and other "critical roles" through 2023, Pichai said in the memo.

Read the full memo Pichai sent to staff:

Hi Googlers,

Hard to believe we're already through the first half of 2022. It's the right opportunity to thank everyone for the great work so far this year, and to share how my Leads and I are thinking about H2.

The uncertain global economic outlook has been top of mind. Like all companies, we're not immune to economic headwinds. Something I cherish about our culture is that we've never viewed these types of challenges as obstacles. Instead, we've seen them as opportunities to deepen our focus and invest for the long term.

In these moments, I turn to our mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. It's what inspired me to join the company 18 years ago, and what makes me so optimistic about the impact we are able to have on the world. Knowledge and computing are how we drive our mission forward. That's the lens we use to decide where to invest — whether it's in areas like Search, Cloud, YouTube, Platforms and Hardware, the teams that support them, or in the AI that enables more helpful products and services.