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Exploding offers are actually explicitly forbidden by my top 20 university's on-campus recruiting policy. Nonetheless, a very famous tech company that was once
by anonymous__ 11y ago
Exploding offers are actually explicitly forbidden by my top 20 university's on-campus recruiting policy.
Nonetheless, a very famous tech company that was once very prolific, but by 2012, most people considered as their "second choice" company routinely issued exploding offers to CS students in late August/early September before anybody had a chance to interview elsewhere.
To this day, they still recruit on our campus, and while one of my best friends reneged on them to work at Google (which actually in retrospect turned out to be a very wise choice), I wasted a full year of my life at this second tier company; the actual employment experience proved to be as shady as their recruiting experience.
Needless to say, I was extremely unhappy there.
- prdonahue 11y ago> Nonetheless, a very famous tech company that was once very prolific, but by 2012, most people considered as their "second choice" company So.. Yahoo?
- patmcguire 11y agoMicrosoft? I'm only basing this off the implication in http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/26.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/26.html
- boardbrowser 11y agoI interviewed with Microsoft in university. After a half-day on-site interview I was taken into a room and a recruiter made me an offer. She expected an answer on the spot. The recruiting staff had told me a week or two beforehand that this was their process. I didn't know the details of the offer until the day, though.