Re:Eric Schmidt: “It Is A War For Talent”
by prodigal_erik on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @03:37AM
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Yeah, the latency of their hiring amazes me. I lean towards small shops, but for some reason I entertained a phone screen from them a few years ago. Well, they called me several weeks later hoping for an onsite, but I had already interviewed for, accepted, and started another position in the meantime. I don't see why they would expect anyone good to remain available long enough for them to have a chance with, unless the candidate has singled out Google as the only place they're even considering for a month if not an entire quarter.
Yeah, that reminds me of my Thinking Machines experience. I later heard it took them another two tries to fill the position I was applying for, I think I heard the second guy timed out on them as well.
Re:Eric Schmidt: “It Is A War For Talent”
by endtime on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @02:00AM
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I had a similarly frustrating experience interviewing for an internship there. I'm very happy to be doing what I'm doing right now (CTO of a startup) but the experience with Google still left a bad taste in my mouth, and it makes me reluctant to apply to them rather than e.g. Facebook or MSFT in future.
The next day, I got a call from them saying "Well, unfortunately we wont be giving you an offer, because you dont have a PMP certification."
(When I went into the process, for an infrastructure PM, I stated that my lack of a PMP cert may hurt me - they said "Oh no, we don't want people to come here with a predisposition of the process they feel they need to impose on how we work" -- I was so freaking enraged over that experience.)
I was later told "You scored really well on the interview process, why not apply for another position?"
To which I only had a big FU to the whole experience.