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A comment on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test. Parent comment

Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by pjmlp on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:39PM (#12703442)
It happens all the time Google acquires a new company, those employees aren't going through these crazy interview processes.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by dekhn on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:00PM (#12703573)
actually, acquisitions normally trigger full interviews- see "Chaos Monkeys" for a description how this happened at Twitter/Facebook.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by pjmlp on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:07PM (#12704034)
Is this an US thing?

I went through three acquisitions and never had any interview, besides the set of meetings for each of us to decide to go along with the acquisition or get a severance package.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by BinaryIdiot on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:19AM (#12706569)
I think it all depends on the requirements of the company doing the acquisition. I've gone through several myself and did not have to re-interview however I have heard of a employees claiming Google required them to re-interview which has got to be nerve racking considering Google's heavy focus on avoiding false positives a lot of good people don't pass them.
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