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> There's a group of firms that are very picky with their hires (FAANG, HFT) that every recruiter in London will mention to you if you are a dev. Knowing which

> There's a group of firms that are very picky with their hires (FAANG, HFT) that every recruiter in London will mention to you if you are a dev. Knowing which ones actually know these hiring managers is hard. They all claim to have gone to school with them. I have been a hiring manager at several FAANGs in London and these recruiters are all bullshitting you. We never used external recruiters, we had no need. Lead generation was entirely internal.

lordnacho 5y ago
I'm more familiar with the financial market than tech, but I did get a guy saying he could forward me to Google at one point. I guess that was just a BSer? I didn't go through him as I know people internally, and in any case it wasn't the right move for me at the time. Good to know from you how to approach this.
- hiq 5y ago
  I think it's written on the Google Careers website that they don't use any external recruiters and don't accept such leads. It could be that the guy you talked to had some agreement with somebody working there to share the referral bonus in case of hire, but I don't know how shady that would be considered.
- user5994461 5y ago
  It could be a real recruiter from Google. Google has outsourced all hiring, their "internal" recruiters are temps working from an external sweatshop. There are plenty of issues and disincentives. They recruit for Google but they are not allowed to say that they work at Google themselves. They couldn't care less about the company because they don't work there and have zero benefits. In my experience, if you wait a month to reply to the reach out email, there is a good chance you get a delivery error recipient not found, because the recruiter is not contracted by google anymore. The churn is insane. Facebook and Apple use internal recruiters (in London). My experience with them was much more positive.

lordnacho 5y ago

I'm more familiar with the financial market than tech, but I did get a guy saying he could forward me to Google at one point. I guess that was just a BSer? I didn't go through him as I know people internally, and in any case it wasn't the right move for me at the time. Good to know from you how to approach this.

hiq 5y ago
I think it's written on the Google Careers website that they don't use any external recruiters and don't accept such leads. It could be that the guy you talked to had some agreement with somebody working there to share the referral bonus in case of hire, but I don't know how shady that would be considered.
user5994461 5y ago
It could be a real recruiter from Google. Google has outsourced all hiring, their "internal" recruiters are temps working from an external sweatshop. There are plenty of issues and disincentives. They recruit for Google but they are not allowed to say that they work at Google themselves. They couldn't care less about the company because they don't work there and have zero benefits. In my experience, if you wait a month to reply to the reach out email, there is a good chance you get a delivery error recipient not found, because the recruiter is not contracted by google anymore. The churn is insane. Facebook and Apple use internal recruiters (in London). My experience with them was much more positive.