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Research divisions exist for recruitment purposes. Sometimes it's just a bait and switch, being promised "R&D" and then getting interviewed for Google Play Stor
by doctorpangloss 10y ago
Research divisions exist for recruitment purposes. Sometimes it's just a bait and switch, being promised "R&D" and then getting interviewed for Google Play Store once someone realizes you're not qualified enough. Other times, you work on research for six months, and then there's this team at the company that needs work from you for two years.
Ask the former MSR executive, who fixed the accounting of their losses by pointing out how people at MSR were working on regular MS commercial products too.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoEh, you've got it all backwards. You cannot get a job at X by going into the ordinary Google hiring pipeline, and in any case the Google hiring system does not hire people for specific products like Google Play Store. Furthermore, one does not freely transfer between X and Google, in either direction.
- Redoubts 10y agoHow does one get hired at X? Their jobs page just leads you to google.com/about/careers
- CardenB 10y agoI don't believe this is true. I know someone was initially picked to interview for YouTube but then got interviewed for X after declining YouTube.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoYouTube has retained their own quasi-independent recruiting regime, along with X, Verily, Fiber, etc.
- tjl 10y agoActually, they are part of the normal Google pipeline (or at least they were before the Alphabet split). A few years ago, I was contacted by a recruiter from Google and after talking to her I ended up being interviewed by someone for a job at Google X.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoA few years ago was before Google reorganized into Alphabet.