Agreed, that would be pretty irritating, but one would assume that the job offers come with significant salary bumps to compensate. They may also be trying to

Agreed, that would be pretty irritating, but one would assume that the job offers come with significant salary bumps to compensate. They may also be trying to figure out what band to put you in. Google really protects their bands pretty carefully. Having a junior engineer in a senior engineer role can be pretty disruptive.