I know there's lots of posts on here about the TM limbo, but it would be great if someone from Google can give some clarity on the situation. Passed SWE onsite a month ago (L4), still stuck in team match. Does Google just not have head count at the moment? Is there a cadence with which head count is decided (e.g. every April)? Or is this the new normal? #engineering #software #swe #google TC 330k
Damn. Even if you pass interviews still looks like its hard to get a job at Meta/Google right now
There are more passed interview candidates in the pool than available HC, it is normal in large company hiring.
Do you feel like eventually everyone waiting will get an offer, or have recruiters just needlessly flooded the queue here? Certainly seems odd that companies would go through the costs of interviewing people that they don't intend on hiring. That would be a massive waste of time and resources.
The total L4 swe hc in whole U.S. is around 50. Given they just layoff hundreds of L4 and there are thousands of internal candidate want to transfer team, it is very hard for external candidate to get a team match call now.
Thanks for your input. You're right that it seems like this is more of a top-down problem of HC. Do you feel like interest rate cuts will change headcount, or is this mostly a general slowdown in tech overall that's here to stay?
I am a little pessimistic, I do not think interest rate cut will help that much. They are more likely to add more hc in India, but keep or reduce the hc in US
Passing the on-site means nothing any more these days, people are stuck in team match for months if not years. It’s more likely that the HC approval lapses.
Thanks for your input. Do you think this is because of low headcount from top-down, or teams are just super picky on candidate specializations from their resume or something? This couldn't have been the experience several years ago, since passing onsite was considered the hardest part of the process.
There just isn’t enough headcount, and teams have many more candidates per opening.