Just told my Google recruiter about passing Facebook’s onsite and it backfired
I passed HC for an L3 SETI role about 2 weeks ago but I’ve been stuck in team matching ever since. I recently found out from Facebook that I passed their onsite interviews and they’d wanna give me an offer for an E4 SWE role. I told my Google recruiter this in the hopes things could be sped up but he told me straight up I should take the Facebook offer lol. Coincidentally he’s also leaving for Facebook in a week or 2. I’m just gonna keep delaying as much as possible though since I really want Google. For any Googlers, do you think it’s possible to re-interview for a SWE role or have my interviews re-reviewed by HC for a SWE role? I was thinking it could open more doors for me in team matching if I’m successful.
What’s wrong with your recruiter’s advice?
Nothing I guess. Just was hoping it could help speed up team matching as others have experienced.
The recruiter seems very unprofessional. How can a recruiter advise an engineer to take up a job about which he has no clue. Just because he is leaving, doesn't mean it would always be right for you.
To be fair to him, his reasoning was that he didn’t wanna jeopardize my situation with Facebook since there’s apparently no space for me at Google
Team matching can take months in some cases and Facebook wont want to wait that long
Seems fishy. I’d wait for the recruiter’s replacement.
lol wtf are these comments? SETI is glorified QA role and not on par with SWE *and* FB upleveled you. and no team is jumping to match you you should thank your recruiter and not look back (source: ex-FB/google)
Your role won't change with a new recruiter. So you will be comparing glorified QA vs a real SWE role. Why wait for Google? Would you really prefer SETI at G vs SWE at F?
he gave you good advice
Take his advise.
L4 at FB. Chuck Google. Go make some big bucks
I've had dramatically different experience with different recruiters in the same situation. Don't believe others who tell you "there's nothing a recruiter can do" because yes there is; they can reach out to more teams, they can ping people for responses generally be more proactive etc.
Thanks for the reply! It may be a blessing in disguise to get a new recruiter. Hopefully they can get things going better than the current one.
Why would you bring that up?
Others mentioned Google recruiters can speed up team matching if you’re in late stages with other companies. That was my hope here
Could have told you that wouldn’t work