Ghosted by Google, is there hiring slowdown?
Applied to Google two times before, the last time was 3 years ago, both time failed the technical phone round. Spent the last half a year intensely grinding Leetcode and preparing for system design. Asked a former teammate who now works at Google to refer me. After he submitted his referral, I got a link and had to choose the open roles. The last time I applied I always chose a generic SWE role, but this time there wasn't such a generic role for my location and I had to choose an org specific roles. Since the application allows to choose up to 3 roles, I chose SWE-SRE, SWE-Core, SWE-YouTube. Several days later received a generic rejection email for SWE-YouTube from a recruiter saying that after reviewing my background and experience they decided not to proceed with my application at this time and that if I applied for any other roles, I should look for an update on them soon. Welp, it's been more than 2 months and no update came on the other 2 roles. I am a bit surprised by that given that the other previous 2 times I applied I had a weaker resume and had less experience but managed to get interviews. What can explain this, is there a hiring slowdown for some orgs? Also, was it a mistake to apply to 3 roles instead of 1? How long should I wait before applying again and if they keep ghosting me, after how many attempts should I give up? TC: 110k YOE: 7 + PhD in CS #google #hiring
If you get rejected from one role u get rejected from all.
Incorrect. You are evaluated by 3 different recruiters. Whether a recruiter is assigned is a different story
Wow your profile looks great. Even I get interview requests from Google, why would they reject you? May be you are not diverse candidate or over qualified?
I am definitely not falling under any diversity umbrella term, not sure if it's an issue. Not sure about qualification, I heard that big tech prefer to hire either juniors or very senior people. If someone falls in the middle without previous FAANG experience, the companies are more reluctant, may be because they would have to down level the candidate. Anyhow, I hope that this time was just bad luck and I have to keep trying.
I believe your friend should be able to see status of your applications if you applied via the referral link
Thanks for the advice, I will ping my friend for the heads-up.
Lol
Ikr! "Google didn't call me back, must be a hiring freeze!"
No one counts PhD years as yoe. At best your yoe is 7+Phd and not 12.
Then why does Google hire fresh PhD grads with no industry experience as L4 instead of L3?
That's right. PhDs get a higher level in the beginning but l3->l4 takes 1-2 years I think. I have a PhD too. I wish the industry looked at it in a different way.
This is pretty normal. Google doesn't respond to every application. I'd move on and interview with other companies.
The only problem is that I am in Switzerland and Google is pretty much the only company that has FAANG-level pay here, moving to another country isn't an option due to family situation. So, from the high-paying companies I stuck with Google. Guess, I will just keep trying.