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Heh. I appear to be blacklisted from google. I interviewed 4 years ago over a 3 month period, after which they said they were excited to send me an offer. The
by phlux 16y ago
Heh.
I appear to be blacklisted from google. I interviewed 4 years ago over a 3 month period, after which they said they were excited to send me an offer.
The next day, they called me back and said, no, they were not going to be giving me an offer.
Recently, I applied for a position I thought I was perfect for - and the google recruiter contacted me asking to talk about the position.
He asked if I had ever applied to google before, and I told him I had. I related a little about the experience and what happened.
He put the phone interview on pause and said he was going to go look into that and talk to the previous recruiter.
Radio silence for over a week. I sent him an email asking if my previous interview experience precluded me from interviewing there...
He said he was still collecting data.
Then he called me last friday and said that after reviewing the position with the hiring manager, they decided not to move forward with me any further, but he had no information as to the reasoning.
That was that.
But here is what I find both hilarious and infuriating: in my current company, a small design firm of just 10 people, we design a lot of google infrastructure projects; their datacenter fiber plants in the EU, NC, projects for gmail and other infrastructure projects they have going on.
I am good enough to be a contractor designing the systems - but apparently not good enough to be an employee.
I wonder if they are reading my emails or something ;)
- mkrecny 16y agoWow - Can't believe they turned around and reneged on your offer one day later..yes the irony of you designing google infrastructure projects is amazing : )
- bonzoesc 16y ago> I am good enough to be a contractor designing the systems - but apparently not good enough to be an employee. Or not good enough to mess with the contract they have with your employer?
- chwahoo 16y agoI bet this is the explanation. It's certainly one of the few reasons I can imagine why they'd give and then revoke an offer.
- gscott 16y agoIt could be the no-poach agreement.
- phlux 16y agoCompletely possible, it i just very infuriating not knowing why.
- lawnchair_larry 16y agoNon-poach agreement. Even if it isn't technically poaching, outsiders don't know that, and it can start fights. Easier for them to avoid the situation altogether. Non-poach agreements are illegal, so they won't tell you that this is why.
- crenelle 16y agoHow much exposure do you have on the net? Often someone will pull the plug on a process because they found some social chatter with your name on it that they didn't like, whether or not you were actually involved or not.
- brown9-2 16y agoDo you have a source for this?
- wikyd 16y agoI know that Google solicits feedback from their employees who may have worked with you in the past. Is it possible that you pissed off a former co-worker who now works at Google?
- phlux 16y agoI don't believe so, I have a good professional reputation, and I have good friends at google. Frankly, I believe it to be my lack of a PMP certification.... I dont know why I havent tried for it...
- shasta 16y agoAnother possibility is that they're not expecting you to live long enough to justify the investment. Google has developed very statistically accurate methods for determining how much longer an individual will live, but it's very computationally intensive to compute and so defer that filter to the very end of the interview process.