Lost motivation with Google interview process (ux design)
Just sharing an experience that I would have found interesting at least;
Google recruiter reached out 4 months ago, I thought why not give it a shot for the experience and great if a better opportunity comes up.
Went through the whole thing and finally hear the result of a down level offer with TC about $50k less than current. Awkward call as recruiter continues to maintain excitement sharing offer details, felt bad for both of us.
Recruiter suggests appealing with some extra design examples for HC to reconsider L5 offer instead of L4 as approved - I agreed quietly dreading the idea of gathering and polishing yet more portfolio stuff, because HC can only gauge so much from offline browsing of my presentation deck outside of the context of the presentation..
Meanwhile, another interview process (non faang, not going to name here) wraps up and the offer is great, so I’m now weighing up just accepting that vs prolonging the Google process in the hope for a competitive offer. I wouldn’t give it a second thought if it wasn’t Google but I think it’s diminishing returns at this point. It’s an anti climactic end to a long mysterious process.
I’d read many stories here about the famous Google downlevel, so here’s one more :)
#design #interviews #ui/ux
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Overall I get the impression they’re in the business of keeping a steady production line of candidates flowing and have uniquely high confidence in their brand appeal - and with so many people happy to sign up, they can afford to throw out crappy offers without caring much about successfully hiring.