I was recently contacted by a Google recruiter asking if I wanted to interview with them. After sending my resume, the recruiter reached out to me and said a team had seen my profile and was interested in me and wanted me to go straight to onsite (without phone screen) How common is this? do I have some advantage because of this? TC: 220k YoE: 4
Happened to me several times. Still have open invite for both Bay area and Europe position.
Seems legit.
Not planning on taking it?
It's common. I went straight to onsite too.
Good to know it is common, any tips?
For onsite? Make sure you talk out your solutions and what you're thinking. If the interviewer makes a comment about your solution, don't ignore it or brush it aside, it's almost always a useful hint
Wow mind sharing what kind of profiles?
SWE with 4 YoE in a tier 2/3 company
What's a tier 2 / 3 company?
It happens. I got one when I was in school. The first email I received from google is to arrange onsite. A friend referred me.
Oh interesting, did you go through the process?
No... already accepted MS return at the time so terminated. The worst decision I ve made ever.
It does happen.
Good, because I am not special at all
I had this happen via a internal referral.
Oh nice, did you go through the process?
Yes matched with 2 teams a day after onsite feedback. I think I'm lucky in many of the interviewers where from the same team. I impressed and they are advocating for me now.
Last year I did 2 phone screens (recruiter’s mistake) and an on-site (SWE L5). I didn’t get an offer. Just shy of 1 year later a recruiter from another location found me in the system and contacted me to try again. I assumed I would go straight to the on-site, but was told that I will start with a tech phone screen. I kept it to myself, but I was so disappointed when I heard that. Now I kind of don’t even care to try again, but I will. I’m far into my career and the thought of Google experience means almost nothing to me (now that I’ve been through the Amazon ringer). It hardly seems like a prize to land another one of these grunt jobs. Anyway, just whining here; but annoyed that the process goes back to a dumb phone tech screen after having spent an entire day there a year ago.
Third time’s the charm
Or the blacklist.
My recruiter told me that I skipped straight to onsite too. I asked her "how" and she said they've historically seen strong performance for candidates from Cruise so they skip us straight to onsite. So it's probably depending on whether they think something else is already a strong sign.
This makes a lot of sense
Oh ok the most impressive reason so far!
Have you had the interview OP?
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Lol, they only saw a resume though
That’s why they gave you the onsite interview, not the offer.