I passed the team match, hiring committee, compensation and got the verbal offer in early December, but got stuck at the final vp approval since. My recruiter said that they don’t know when my offer will be approved or if I will get the offer at all. There were several posts in the past few weeks about people waiting for the written offer from Google. Among them, I see 3 people got written offer in the first week of January, but at least 6 people get stuck still. It looks like that google is going through another hiring freeze to me. Last July/August, verbal offers were rescinded and people need to go through team match again. I’m worried about this to be happening now. I’m creating this post so that people can post their updates here. Thanks! TC: 0 #tech #google #freeze
1. Role 2. Group ( core, cloud , Fitbit ) Depends on above two
Do you know which group/orgs are affected?
Btw Google is having performance review right now. I think they will give offers after that.
They said it’s holiday season, then performance review? I think that doesn’t make sense because there were a few people got offer last week. I’m guessing there is reprioritizing happening hence worried if my verbal offer will be rescinded eventually.
I am worried about the same too, but I guess we have no option but to wait
What level?
This is pretty typical at this time of year, for the past couple of years. Headcount usually opens late January or early February.
Well some of us already passed HC and team match and got verbal offers but stuck at the vp approval
That could still come down to headcount. If the VP closes the headcount you'd have to go through match again. They're perhaps the most important part of the headcoint equation
Thanks for the thread, same situation, verbal offer gotten on 8th of Dec, been waiting since then on written offer.
I’ve also gone through HC and team match already. Just stuck at VP approval
What happens to folks who never match a team? ( does it even happen?)
Got verbal offer on Dec 6 and got written offer on Dec 8. Accepted the offer and join next month (if the offer is not rescinded)
Where is waiting for team match option
I have that option
You almost have the option but yours includes passed HC. I did on-site interviews and was told the feedback was good enough to move to team match but it sounded like HC review won't happen until after TM. Or perhaps it's just the offer has to wait until after TM but I already passed HC? There's a huge amount of uncertainty
Got verbal offer, waiting for written offer since a while. It’s weird because I might have another offer soon
When did you get the verbal offer?
Third week of December before holidays. Stuck at VP approval