Hey everyone - I'm considering moving from Microsoft to Google, following my former skip level manager who transitioned there recently. I'm about to reach out to him for a referral (I know his new org is hiring) and am pretty confident he'll give me a good one. We had a good working relationship and I was one of the top rewards earners at SE1 level during the time I was under him. Does anyone who's gotten a referral from Google know how it affects the interview process? Any chance I can skip out on all the leet coding or reduce the number of interview steps? MS lvl: 60 YOE: 2 TC: 150k
The referral gets a recruiter to at least look at you and might help if you're a borderline candidate in hiring committee, that's about it.
The best best best case scenario is that you'll get an interview call. Other than that, probably if you make it to the HC and you have a borderline case and if your manager provides an exceedingly amazing reference, then may be it could help you a little. The upside of this is that there's a standardised bar that every engineer passes, and you don't have to interview to change teams. Don't expect to clear Google without being comfortable leetcoding :)
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No skipping interviews. The whole system is set up to ensure that everyone hired is solid. For instance, if you change teams later, the new team should get a good engineer who is vetted without favoritism. Referrals do mean a lot though. Primarily at the hiring committee stage.