I had a similar experience with their recruiting. Some interviews were cancelled and had to be rescheduled only after I inquired.

Many weeks to generate offer and paper work and then 24 hrs to accept with a "take or leave it" ultimatum.

Just a very poor taste and I know some fine people who work at Google. Its unfortunate they don't seem to value warmth and humaneness when communicating externally

Got an offer from a dream company. But it was lowball take it or leave it quickly thing.

Noped out of that as quick as I could.

To be fair, Covid likely played a part in that long silence. I believe there was even a hiring freeze for a bit in spring. Not that it excuses bad behavior...

I had virtually the same experience in 2018. Gave me an offer for less than half I was currently making too.

It crushed me because I found a team that I was unbelievably excited to work with.

I should mention though that I did re-apply last year and they were much more prompt

If the recruiter replied and said as much I would have been ok with that. At least they were communicating. Plus covid didn’t effect the US big time until March. That’s all of Jan + Feb they had to let me know something was going on.

Wow. Not even a call from the Recruiter to walk you through the offer letter?

They called me eventually were kind on the call. But the whole communication issues leading up to that really ruined it for me. I was initially quite excited too. I have no idea if this is common or if my recruiter was especially bad. Reading the parent comment made me think of the similarity.

Wow, that's a pretty horrible experience. Weird too since AFAIK recruiter/recruiting coordinatiors comp tied in some way to shepherding the successful candidates through the hiring process.

Me and a friend of mine interviewed in Nov and passed HC in Dec 2019 as well (different recruiters between the two of us). Our experience was different from yours: Immediate timely followups from the recruiting coordinators, team-matched and hired in the same month. Hopefully our experience is more common...

I know why. HR received so many resumes which they don't do any additional effort, do they receive compensation for each hire, no. Most of them are not FTE.