I have read so many horror stories about candidates being left in the dark for months on end. Chatted with my friend (he's an SD Eng) and he indicated it's intentional and that your volume of candidates is so high that their experience is not a high priority. If this is true it seems really shitty. Would love to hear from current or former Google recruiters on this. Basically I'd like to know if candidate experience is part of your overarching talent strategy.
I interviewed at about 20 companies in the same loop, my Google recruiter was the 2nd best out of everyone (Uber recruiter was the best, though she was a higher-level recruiter, super responsive and direct, no games). It does vary drastically but I think plenty of Google recruiters are nice, especially if you do well on on-site.
I did a whole loop at microsoft and never even once heard from a recruiter! Got an OA, passed it, got scheduled an onsite, got ghosted at the onsite for one interview, no response from my recruiter, completed the onsite, then after a month got an automatic rejection email. :O So yeah, a slow recruiter still beats that shit.
Same! I had to reach out to a recruiter on LinkedIn because it felt weird to be without one.
Microsoft outsources a lot of recruiting.
My current experience has been terrible but that’s mostly because of the interviewers, not the recruiters. Had 3 interviews that needed rescheduling 6 hours before since interviewers cancelled and a fourth just didn’t show up.
My original question was if Google TA indexes heavily on positive candidate experience / my friend internal that's an Eng leader says no and I was wanting to hear from a recruiter internal to Google to confirm whether he's accurate.
Not accurate. Good candidate experience = good recruiter. It’s literally part of recruiter performance evals
Idk about all orgs but a good chunk of recruiters and sources are also goaled on candidate experience based on the surveys that are sent out.
I used to work at Google. My recruiter was great. I think it is luck of the draw.
You left goog or oracle? What
I can only speak from my own experience. Has been awful each time. Very very slow process. I would say it’s probably the slowest in the industry. The recruiters do seem to actually respond to emails now though, big improvement.
Not a recruiter but Google’s interview process was the smoothest and the most professional interview process I’ve been through. Now Apple’s on the other hand smfh.
One of the few places that will relay interview feedback after a rejection.
As a recruiter (at Comcast currently) I can tell you that these things are definitely measured as part of the performance of TA teams but each company will weigh it differently. However, in the current market even the best TA teams are struggling to cover it all. There's a good reason that there are nearly 300k open US recruiter jobs still being posted on LinkedIn.
I haven't applied yet but the google recruiters I've spoken to are very professional. By a mile. It's not even close.
You are generalizing one data point that too not a complete hiring round and concluding so confidently
I know I’m generalizing that’s why I mentioned I haven’t applied yet, so folks do not take my anecdotal experience to heart. However, the initial impression is important to “me” and I wanted to share my direct experience with google recruiters whom I’ve been speaking to over the last several months.