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Counter point: The time between my on site interview and hire date was 1 month and 1 day. I skipped the phone interview so the time from initial referral to of
by mkoryak 7y ago
Counter point:
The time between my on site interview and hire date was 1 month and 1 day.
I skipped the phone interview so the time from initial referral to offer was under a month.
Having an internal reference may have helped, as did the fact that I told them I was actively interviewing and had offers.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoSimilar experience here. Having internal references seems to be very useful, not just for skipping the phone interview but for getting through the hiring committee. My start day is exactly one month after my interview, but even then that is because I put it back a week.
- fergie 7y agoDoes anybody get hired for SWE positions at Google _without_ an internal referral? When I was interviewing there 6 or so years ago I was under the impression that you, in practice, had to have an insider vouch for you.
- smueller1234 7y agoThe only internal reference I had was a distant acquaintance who - as they said themselves - just submitted one that basically read "don't know them much but they don't seem to be a jerk". So you can absolutely get hired in engineering without internal references. (I'm also on a hiring committee myself.)
- donalhunt 7y agoWhen I got hired back in 2004 that was pretty much the bar (helped that I knew how to fix servers I suspect too)!! :)
- fnayr 7y agoI was hired last year without a reference. I just submitted a resume to the careers page.
- rubidium 7y agoSure, but my Fortune 500 employer takes 2-3 weeks to do that on average. Longer only if the new hire needs longer to unwind from prior commitments.