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Congrats! Keep pushing for Waterloo interns hiring ;-)

Same here. Twice in a row.

First time, I was told a manager would call me to explain me which team I was being matched with. I received the call to tell me I had an offer... two days after the deadline set by the University. And it is not like this deadline is unknown to employers.

Second time, again, I received an offer. This time, I had to call, one week before the deadline, after two weeks of hearing nothing from them. Two students in my class were in the same situation, one had to send a hate mail to finally get a reply. The other one got one only after the deadline.

To be honest, this really isn't the best way to go about it. Makes you fell like crap as an intern. I interned at fairly large and well known tech companies in the past (Facebook, heading to Bloomberg this Summer) and got offers from many more (Amazon, Microsoft, Zynga, EA, etc.) and my worst experiences were always with Google. As a freshman, Google looked like the dream internship, the company to aim for. Four internships later, it is now pretty low on my list.

Definitely not impressed by their recruitment process. And this all happened in the past 12 months.