Team, I had finished 9 rounds of interview with Apple, including onsite. Some of these calls happened virtually. The last ones were with senior director, hr representative, and another hr director i believe. The hiring manager mentioned that he is fine to proceed with offer before the rounds with HR. He also mentioned the roadmap to some extent, then expectation from my side etc. Before, proceeding deep and further into the process, i inquired specifically about hiring freezes at Apple because of current situation. He responded that he has the approval and there is no freeze as such. Then, all of a sudden, exactly two days post the discussion with HR director, he messaged me over whatsapp and mentioned that he is sorry and he cannot hire for two months because of freeze. Asked me to pursue other offers i have. Is this true? I felt that i have wasted massive amount of time. Appreciate the inputs. #tech #career #offer
Op, what role and org was this for?
Nah You were rejected after some more discussion within the team i guess Apple is hiring Go check linkedin for apple managers with hiring titles/subtitles
Looks like Op interviewed for a very senior role. So it’s possible that it could indeed be a freeze
I assume if this is the case, shouldn't hr drop a formal mail with the rejection response? Will they assume that the candidate is informed by hiring manager through whatsapp and is fine? I am surprised to know as to what has gone wrong with hr director round and till then everything as stated by hiring manager was fine to proceed with.
Even on their website they made several new job postings in last one week. It's another thing that the recruiters etc. don't reply on LinkedIn.
We are still rapidly hiring so I don’t know about that. Unless your role was unique or you’re at the Director level and maybe that’s on hold?
Don’t think there’s a freeze
What level and what kind of role we’re you interviewing for?
I know at least my org is hiring. If a hiring freeze happened somewhere else I haven’t heard of it. Was this for a SW position?
WhatsApp? What's going on
They already know each other ?
No. I don’t know them at all beforehand. Recruiter and HM communicated for interviews especially during lockdown.
What kind of role would require that you chat with the HR Director? O.o
So this guy was interviewing for high level position?
Op only asks questions, does not want to answer anything
Interesting. This is the second freeze I’ve heard of in the last day. Exact similar situation happened to a friend in the last rounds with Amazon. Recruiter wouldn’t admit that it’s COVID related.