Hi, My friend got an offer from Google around 2 months ago and his start date is April but he wants to postpone it as late as October. He thinks it might backfire to ask the recruiter, so do you think he can postpone the start date? he is okay if his offer gets withdrawn as part of batch cancellation of offers (because of the current economy etc.) TC: 200K YOE:3
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Ask and see. The offer probably wouldn't get rescinded just for asking about a later start date.
In the present market environment, that’d likely be unwise
Yeah Lol, the world will be much different by October. Different projects budgets products and obviously different HC needs.
Might be okay if the person is a new grad
Sounds almost like he doesn't want the job? 👀 If he's okay with it being cancelled, why not just apply when he wants to actually start? Unsure if he's using up head count but that sucks for the team that he's supposed to be part of to not have him for six months when they could get someone else during that period
He may have to go through team match again.
Postponing for 6 months? Lol. Do it and get right back to leetcoding. Headcount’s are so hard to get approved nowadays. No way a HM is going to risk the chance it being cut to wait on a single candidate.
Expect to have it withdrawn in this climate.
Why doesn’t he ask the recruiter to just give him a blank date? He can join wherever and the HM and the team can hold the req open until he decides
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