By Veronika Bondarenko Uber and Meta both recently announced hiring slowdowns. The whispers about a shrinking tech sector are getting stronger. In many cases, they are also now moving beyond the predictions of economists and toward concrete steps on the part of companies. After suffering its first-ever decline in daily active users last quarter, Facebook FB announced that it would slow down hiring to cut costs and realign its strategy going forward on May 5. Three days later, Uber (UBER) – Get Uber Technologies, Inc. Report also named a “seismic shift” in investor sentiment as the reason to si…