I had a PgM onsite interview last week. A recruiter reached out to congratulated me today and said google would like to move forward. Yay! The next step she said would be a team match, and then my packet goes to the hiring committee for approval and level decision. I thought process was opposite? onsite>HC>team match>offer
I guess it may depend on the business too (gcp, YouTube etc). HC & team match can happen independently or it seems that match is happening more and more before hc decision.
I will ask more questions to my recruiter. I believe excitement took the best of me, and I forgot to ask relevant questions. She just said feedback was good and they would like to move forward.
Good luck!
HC is the main litmus test. Just went through the same and was confused like you. Move forward means that your initial interview feedback had enough signals for recruiter to move along and not reject immediately. That being said Good Luck.
Did you get the offer?
Nope. HC reject.
Congratulations on passing this important hurdle. Agree with other posters that it makes sense they match you to have a solid case for HC.
I found out from the recruiter that correct hiring process is Onsite-Team Match-HC-EX Approval-offer She did not provide any other specific e.g if it was changed recently.
Sorry to hear that! This is insane. Did you reach out to recruiter and share your concern?
Not so insane. I hear a lot of cases like this especially for TPM and PgM. Some can drag on for more than 6 months
Spoke with the recruiter today and was told that she couldn't match the team and most likely my application will be closed in the next two weeks. And this is after getting HC approval in November and 6 month long hiring process from the initial contact till now. The hiring process at google is seriously broken. Anyone has any advise other than just giving up on this?
Sorry to hear that! What will happen after your application is closed? You have to interview again? I do not have HC approval and still no team match. I did the onsite in Jan 2020.
The recruiter said they will keep it just in case till November (one year after HC approval ). I am really frustrated right now by so called google hiring expiriance . If my application will get closed, that would be my last contact with their hiring team. I know you should never say never, but it's just the way I feel about it right now.
Could be either. Matched offers sometimes has higher chance of approval
Thanks! That is assuring