How does Google hire anyone ?

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I love google as a customer and I have been trying to work for Google for 12 years now. But no matter what I do, I just cant get Google to move quickly in the hiring process.

First some data

First role- 2009 May - 9 ish interviews distributed over 2 months. 4 months later I got a rejection at which point I had already joined another FANG<

Second role - 2015 June- Team screen positive. Then I waited. And waited. In between another FANG made a great offer and I joined them. In December 2015 (yes really 6 months later) Google reached out to say they had found a interested team. Had to turn them down.

Third role - 2021 April - Team screen positive. Waiting again. In August I joined a startup.

Fourth role - 2022 April - Team screen positive. Waiting again for 3 weeks ...

Given companies are going from first contact to offer in a matter of weeks if not days, how does Google ever hire anyone ! Are there any tips and tricks that you have found to make Google hire sooner ?

I have always been upfront with the recruiters about other companies that I am interviewing with, what stage each of them are in etc. It doesnt seem to matter to Google.

19g6tkurhm4vh · Accepted Answer

I worked at google. I applied through their site in mid October. Got reached out to late October and signed my offer early December.

I see the process is garbage for many and I think some of dealing with numbers and such is tedious the downleveling bad, team match was nervous, but it all was fine timeline wise (this was 2018).

I’ve also worked at FB and it took a bit less time but there also wasn’t Thanksgiving in there. Now at LinkedIn, which due to circumstances with how I cancelled some interviews not comparable.

I do think google is aware they have a broader issue and is taking some steps to improve the speed with moving team match earlier (I think they are starting with a hire straight to team approach.

The biggest thing I liked more about LinkedIn and FB was the financials negotiations. Google plays hardball and won’t negotiate without current offers (they wouldn’t even negotiate against my friends offer for their current job because the offer letter was too old). LinkedIn was a dialog more, here’s our standard offer where does that leave you, I told them it’s low gave some details on current pay. Where honest about ability to match took that and negotiated up chain to get me above max offer. FB was similar, they want to come to you with an offer you will sign. I told them what I was hoping for to stop searching for better offers to negotiate with and they came back with about those numbers. It was easy.

bald_eagle · Answer

They are absolute trash. Honestly what I think they do is they have so many inbound candidates from the Google brand that they basically have hundreds of candidates in a state of limbo in the "team matching" phase at any given time. So whenever a team or group needs to hire, they can just scoop up people from their pool of candidates in the pipeline super quickly. They're already pre-vetted and interviewed, just waiting for a team match. Of course this means that candidates are just left waiting up to 8-9 months in this phase, but Im guessing some people are just willing to wait just for that "Google" brand name. I don't think Google cares at all, and will actively lure you into this limbo state just to get your hopes up.

1200baud · Answer

Not related to the tpm role but I was able to negotiate salary at Google.  We went back and forth 3 times.  My decision was also pretty quick, though it cloud some teams hire direct.  Some influence from that I also have 24 YoE.

19g615l1b8r5ts · Answer

I'm just experiencing this now too...no idea how long it will take so interviewing elsewhere. Very frustrating and good to know it's not just a "me" thing

ImproperGoose · Answer

It took over six months for me too. Luckily I wasn't in a hurry and hadn't applied anywhere else.

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