OFFICIAL: Google Hiring Committee acceptance rate
This is asked A LOT. So let’s pool our resources. Pass this along, the more votes, the more accurate. Please don’t troll, vote honestly, this could help you some day and let’s help each other out. Only vote if you, or someone you personally know (that won’t get voted otherwise) has made it to Google Hiring Committee. Choose the general feedback from the interviewers or recruiter, and whether you passed HC or were rejected. If you do not know your feedback, then choose how you feel the interviews went. For example, I felt I did perfect optimal and fast in 2, just ok in 2, and bombed 1, then that would be mixed feedback.
As a hiring committee members, this number is somewhat irrelevant because it's fairly high. Most candidates don't make it to HC.
What's the HC pass rate (for candidates that make it to HC)?
Sure, most don’t make it to HC, you have a point there. But I wouldn’t say it’s irrelevant. It’s a very common question. There seems to be a lot of variance in who passes HC - so a lot of people want to know what fundamental chances exist, overall. You have to admit that it’s interesting if recruiters only pick “mostly positive” feedbacks to be sent to HC and then only 3/8 are approved. A decent amount of rejections is to eliminate the false positives but it still seems a low passing rate regardless. It’s just an interesting data point, irrelevant to you maybe, useful to others. And that’s the point of this poll @chillpil.
Overall Pass Rate: 57/102 = 57% (updating)
Have you considered team match before HC as an influential, confounding factor?
I was trying to team match prior to HC but after speaking with a couple teams my recruiter told me that each team was interested and that’s all that matters, that since I decided to not choose the teams she wants to move to HC now and we can team match more afterwards. For team match for HC, just having the fact that teams ARE interested is enough because HC does not take into consideration any input from the hiring managers. Since the hiring managers want to sell their team to the candidate anyways, there’s little to no valuable input from them. What that means is, HC does not take into consideration whether you have a team match or not.
I went to hiring committee after onsite and got rejected for missing edge cases in one round of coding so HC bar is higher I guess even though your solution is optimal and clean . Sometimes it depends upon luck too because most of my friends bombed their one round and they got in so recruiter will not give you correct feedback and they asked me to try for SETI or SRE/SDE onsite with less rounds and I will try again next year . YOE :5 years so I am not new grad. They did not perform team match before HC so if you get team match then passing HC is higher . I don’t understand in what cases recruiter will go for team match .
Is this based mostly on Eng roles? A friend has had their packet sent to HC for an administration role and was told the feedback from the team that wants them was great. Should they still be concerned they may not get an offer?
Why are they rejecting even the candidate who Strongly favorable is? Are they mistaking HC themselves are especially excellent engineers?
Is it any different for sales? I’m currently in “review”
How do you know how you will be rated after the onsite? What are the main metrics they look for in HC?
The truth is google recruiters were told to sugarcoat the rejected reasons always. Rejected candidates rarely know the real reasons.
Sure - it’s pretty widely known their feedback after a rejection is useless. But that’s not the topic here.