Does Google's Hiring Process Put Off Talented Applicants?

Re:Does Google's Hiring Process Put Off Talented Applicants? by donretag on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:10AM (#13036801)

For me, the main reason why I turn down Google's requests for interviews is blind allocation. Google wants you to go through interview after interview without knowing what role you might get. I am far too experienced to accept whatever random job a company might have. The last time they contacted me and told them no, they came back with an actual position of Site Reliability Engineer. Definitely a job I do not want. Imagine going through the interview process only to be offered a position that is not to your liking?

It has been almost a year since I heard from Google. They are due to send me another email soon.

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Re:Does Google's Hiring Process Put Off Talented Applicants? by highlynt on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:40AM (#13036979)

I recently joined Google and it definitely didn't work that way. You aren't usually interviewing for a specific team, like with smaller companies. But once you get past the interview your recruiter works with you to find teams that you will be interested in. In my case I talked to 3 hiring managers that were all working on the exact type of project I expressed interest in. I've seen it work this way a bunch of times when hiring for my team since joining.

I'm sure it doesn't always work this way but from what I've seen it's certainly the intention.

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Re:Does Google's Hiring Process Put Off Talented Applicants? by zzalpha on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:47AM (#13037028)

But once you get past the interview your recruiter works with you to find teams that you will be interested in

That just confirms his/her point.

If you don't know what you'll be doing until after you've gotten through the recruitment process, it's blind placement.

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Re:Does Google's Hiring Process Put Off Talented Applicants? by Eridrus on Friday November 25, 2016 @10:33AM (#13037385)

There's a significant difference between this and what Facebook does where you don't know what team you will be on until after you join Facebook and complete their bootcamp.

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Re:Does Google's Hiring Process Put Off Talented Applicants? by zzalpha on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:39PM (#13038389)

So Facebook is even worse. Good for them!

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Re:Does Google's Hiring Process Put Off Talented Applicants? by marssaxman on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:16PM (#13039522)

I wish that such a process had existed in 2011 when I went to work at Google; my experience there might have been less miserable and consequently less brief.

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