Got word several weeks ago that I made it through HC at L3 for a frontend SWE. I have 1.5 yoe. But now I am not matching to any teams. I've only had two team interviews, both said not interested and now I can't seem to get any more. On top of that my recruiter has suddenly become much less responsive than before I went to HC, doesn't contact me when planned, keeps drawing timeline out further. Says that he thinks teams are apprehensive towards my low amount of experience (isn't that the point of the interviews???). Anyone know of current teams that might be expanding that I could suggest my recruiter target. Has anyone in team matching tried bypassing recruiter and contacting desired teams directly? It seems crazy to me that I could get through the hardest part of this hellish interview experience only to not get matched to a team. Do teams slow down hiring in holiday months and would I have better odds of getting a team come January? This is a life changing opportunity for me: Current TC: 75k
TC: 75K? Where is this?
Southern California, Irvine area
You could start contacting teams directly on LinkedIn. May or may not work but worth a shot. And yes hiring does generally slow down around holidays. And note that an offer without a team match is unfortunately not an offer :(
Do you have any insight into how active the recruiter has to be in finding the team? Like is there just some board they post my info on that hiring managers can grab or do they have to directly contact these managers?
Also note that the recruiter could have left the company or is planning on leaving the company and has nothing to do with you. Yeah maybe reach out to other recruiters for other divisions/teams just in case (but tactfully, so it doesn’t look like ur going behind ur recruiter’s back)
What were your location preferences? Are you willing to relocate from Irvine? If so, let the recruiter know so that your resume is shared in a wider pool.
Oh yeah, this is actually for cloud platform and was told I was interviewing for positions in Sunnyvale
May be offer to work in Kirkland, WA as their are some cloud teams over there?
Try hardware org. All teams are growing.
But hey, Google hires for the company so you should be just fine.This is yet another instance of how Google's attempts to resemble a University with their hiring practices, are rediculous.
So which algorithmic questions did they ask you, and which frontend-specific questions did they ask you?
I had 7 interviews in the end and only 2 of them didn't involve DFS/BFS. Lots of graphs and trees. Only 1 was really front-end specific was an open ended "build a widget with this functionality". A couple of others asked short answer questions about javascript and some css concepts.