LinkedIn generalist PM hiring process is broken.
Interviewed at LinkedIn. Got a thumbs up from the generalist Product hiring committee and got matched to a team. Chatted with the hiring manager and furnished references. Reference checks were decent/good. But now, they want to wait on me and evaluate more candidates; essentially overruled the hiring committee's decision. LinkedIn doesn't have unassigned PM openings at this point and I lapsed/declined other offers. How does it work at Google/Facebook? Why is it broken at LinkedIn? Can a Senior LinkedIn exec in the recruiting org address my situation/help?
Disclaimer: I don’t know our PM hiring process. However, it seems reasonable to me that hiring a PM isn’t just a hiring committee decision, but the PM must match the team well. Why would you decline other offers if you hadn’t had an offer from LinkedIn yet?
Understand the disclaimer. But didn't expect the HM to move on despite decent ref checks. Never expected the HM to reject HC decisions for a lame reason or in this case no reason.
Because you are from uber, right now too many uber employees are on the market and makes you look not cool
Hiring manager should have last word if not also first word.
Well either include the HM in the interview or go Google/FB style i.e. let the HC decide candidacy and HM follow the decision.
At Google passing HC doesn’t mean you get the job. Not sure where you get that idea from? Many ppl are stuck because they cannot find a HM that likes them
HM and HC both have weight in the process. Passing HC doesn’t guarantee you the offer. Same with Google if you had tried it before.
I care less about Google and it's process. Google has several teams/openings and successful candidates find a role in a matter of a few weeks. LinkedIn for its size and number of openings, shouldn't blindly follow another companies hiring process.
Well OP was complaining why Linkedin didn’t follow Google’s process, hence the explanation
Did you ask the recruiter if something else opens up in a few months can you take it? What would the process be?
Sounds like standard failure to team match. Isn't hiring committee just the first bar? I thought all big tech companies did this. Never heard of a company that didn't give a hiring manager any input.