I was recently made a verbal offer to a software engineering position at Apple but the team rescinded the job offer citing head count and reorg after going for official approval. My background check was also completed. The whole experience has been really demotivating for me. I have stopped practicing LC for past few weeks since I got the offer and find it hard to get back again. I wasn’t actively looking for the job change but now I find it hard to keep myself motivated in my current job. I feel like that its unfair and if I will again get an opportunity like this. The whole process took almost 3 months.
What team at Apple did you interview for?
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I’m sorry to hear that. Did they send you a printed offer letter? I.e. was it a firm offer?
I am so sorry to hear that you went through that. Have you asked the recruiter if there's another position that you could be a good fit for? Are there other teams that might be interested in? I would also reach out to the hiring manager and basically say that you'd appreciate it if they could keep you in mind for future roles or if they personally know any roles that might be for you. If they are half decent they will try to do it right by you.
I didn’t have the hiring manager contact. But I have asked recruiter to consider me for other teams and also if there is a role in the future in the same team I will be happy to explore. She told me she will refer me to other team where she feel I can be a good fit.
You’d talk to the recruiter and hunt down other teams. Apple recruiters are awesome in terms of sending your profile among their network of hiring managers and recruiters. The unfortunate part is you will still have to interview again if any hiring manager likes you
I have requested the same to recruiter and she said the same in my call with her. I hope something works out.
Why would they ask to interview again, isn’t there a common hiring bar? I agree that a quick intro with a hiring manager makes sense, but the full round...
I thought big companies will circulate a candidate to other teams if one position is closed. At least in Amazon it works that way, unless the candidate was offered for a very specialized role. As a HM, I have done this several times.
I think Apple has team specific interviews, recruiter sounded like even if I get call from another team I will have to go through the whole process again.
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It’s that time of year
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forget about it, no big deal at all, be mentally strong.
It just hurts. The whole process took more than 2 months. You give your best , finally get an offer and you start to plan ahead. I have around 7 years exp and have worked in couple of companies but never had such experience so I wasn’t even expecting anything like this could happen. I guess from next time I will be more immune.
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Maybe you should make it clear in the subject this was a verbal offer...
Sorry to hear this. Try to work with recuriter to find another team.