Google Team Match Disaster
I'm about to end my second week in team matching with my third interview tomorrow and I just don't know what to do or what is going wrong. I passed my L5 HC in Seattle and thought I was set, but my coordinator hasn't really been able to find HM interviews for me. I've been told my interview feedback was really strong, but I don't know how much of that is smoke being blown up my ass. In my current position I provide tech leadership to a team of a dozen engineers, tech vision/architecture on big cross section of products, and direct oversight to 2 engineers. I know having that much scope out of the gate at Google isn't in the cards, but I'm hoping to find a position with potential mentoring opportunities. I originally said slu only and a distributed systems focus. The first interview matched that but after thinking about it for a week the hm passed and the coordinator couldn't find another open position. After a few days I got an interview for a position writing kernels? I guess that'd be interesting to learn but the hm mainly seemed worried I'd leave the team after a year and didn't want to talk about anything else, which put me off. He explicitly told me there was no opportunity to do anything but write code. So I told the coordinator I would be open to Kirkland, thinking that would net me a lot of opportunities, but I've only got one which I'm interviewing with tomorrow and it sounds like a team that makes bi dashboards, hopefully it's not that. No other interviews on the horizon. I guess I'd take the dashboard thing to get my foot in the door if transfer is possible and the manager seems good, but at this point I feel like things are going bad. Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on? This process is a living hell. Is my interview feedback probably just mediocre so nobody wants to touch me? I have a co-worker and a friend that have gone through team match here in the last month for l5 and did not have this experience so I don't think there is a head shortage but I could be wrong. I'm starting to panic and I've begun interviewing again because I feel like I'm not going to get a decent offer so I might as well move on. Am I overreacting?
Google is shit for doing this crap, why don't they just interview for a specific position and give it to the best Canadiate. What the hell is this non sense of a pool of Canadiates that passed the interview and HC and are waiting for the stars to align
I work in a company that does exactly that. It’s shit bc you can never effectively hire anyone when you actually need it
it is google way to show their “unique” way of treating talent, unfortunately it often backfires like in op’s case
How do I know low or high l5?
Thanks for the advice, guess I'll just focus more on my previous experience lol
Also internal hires onto a team are preffered. Feel free to do research on teams and help find the right fit
Many reasons: 1. There are people running to Austin and Seattle. It’s end of perf cycle here at G, so lot of roles might be getting filled with internal transfers. 2. Since you mentioned Seattle, it’s mostly GCP. HMs have a lot of options and might prefer someone from aws. 3. Seattle headcount is generally less. 4. You are not a candidate in diversity bucket.
This is interesting feedback. I'm in Austin looking for team match, but not going anywhere quickly. Thanks for this insight.
I ask my recruiter to match all location in us, but it seems not helps. If lots of roles get filled with internal transfer, why google put huge amount of candidates in pools and let them to walk out this process.
It took me 6 months (!) To find a team. When they finally made an offer I told them to fuck off. That's not a way to treat potential candidates
Lol complaining about two weeks? It took me 5 months to team match.
It took my recruiter 1 month to team match me — and I only got 2 interviews from her org. I thought it was from a lack of effort, I've heard people getting 5 interviewers in the first week.
That was how it was for both l5s I know, who cleared in Jan. - not first week but they'd already lined up all their interviews by this point and it was 5/6
Same from people I know too... I have a feeling my recruiter didn't care much about my application. Did you ever get that feeling?
Team matching for last 3 months ... chill and keep going
Naw I'm motivated to leave my current employer. The takeaway from this thread is that you shouldn't apply to Google unless your #2 choice is your current workplace and that ain't me, so I need to move on
What I’ve realised is that Google works at its own pace which is slow to frustrate some candidates. You can push the recruiter of you have other offers but that only helps so much
Update: liked hiring manager number 3, Google is good again
Lol I swear engineers are more like kids everyday
Yes you are likely overreacting. Have you read the other posts on placement?! It can take what seems like forever.