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Had a multi-month team matching phase followed by a 4-day exploding offer for ~50% below market and got blacklisted for a year or more when I didn't sign it. Gr

Had a multi-month team matching phase followed by a 4-day exploding offer for ~50% below market and got blacklisted for a year or more when I didn't sign it. Great.

nosefrog 4y ago
That's weird, most people I know with Google offers say they're good for a year or more.
- ayberk 4y ago
  Not quite. If you pass the hiring committee, you have one year to find a team. So it's more like your interview result is good for a year. After you match with a team you get the actual offer and it has the usual deadlines. Hiring processed has changed though, so I'm not sure if this is still true.
  - luckydata 4y ago
    team matching has been removed. Now you get interviewed for a specific role, which streamlines the process quite a bit and saves time for everyone.
  - anonymoushn 4y ago
    I have not found 4 days to be a usual deadline at any other company.
- ffggvv 4y ago
  think they tell you its exploding. but if you end up turning them down they reach out a few months later and tell you its valid for a year
compiler-guy 4y ago
Not saying an exploding offer didn’t happen, but it is very uncommon. The blacklisted for a year thing sounds like the normal Google, “Try again in a year” messaging that happens whenever someone doesn’t get an offer for failing interviews. Again, don’t know if that is what happened, but it hardly constitutes anything nefarious.
- anonymoushn 4y ago
  > The blacklisted for a year thing sounds like the normal Google, “Try again in a year” messaging that happens whenever someone doesn’t get an offer for failing interviews. Again, don’t know if that is what happened, but it hardly constitutes anything nefarious. To be clear, this is the "You are not permitted to apply for any positions at this company" messaging for people who pass interviews and fail to sign offers within 4 days.
  - puffoflogic 4y ago
    That is crazy; I had the exact opposite experience I just mentioned in another comment. When I turned Google down I was told I could come back and skip the interviews any time in the next year. (Presumably no longer valid with the freeze, but still.) And this is the second time I've turned them down after getting a concrete offer! Personally I did not expect "aw shucks, hope you change your mind" when I did that and yet that's precisely what I got.
whimsicalism 4y ago
> got blacklisted for a year or more when I didn't sign it Never heard of anything like this in the non-startup industry

Had a multi-month team matching phase followed by a 4-day exploding offer for ~50% below market and got blacklisted for a year or more when I didn't sign it. Great.

nosefrog 4y ago

That's weird, most people I know with Google offers say they're good for a year or more.

ayberk 4y ago
Not quite. If you pass the hiring committee, you have one year to find a team. So it's more like your interview result is good for a year. After you match with a team you get the actual offer and it has the usual deadlines. Hiring processed has changed though, so I'm not sure if this is still true.
- luckydata 4y ago
  team matching has been removed. Now you get interviewed for a specific role, which streamlines the process quite a bit and saves time for everyone.
- anonymoushn 4y ago
  I have not found 4 days to be a usual deadline at any other company.
ffggvv 4y ago
think they tell you its exploding. but if you end up turning them down they reach out a few months later and tell you its valid for a year

compiler-guy 4y ago

Not saying an exploding offer didn’t happen, but it is very uncommon. The blacklisted for a year thing sounds like the normal Google, “Try again in a year” messaging that happens whenever someone doesn’t get an offer for failing interviews. Again, don’t know if that is what happened, but it hardly constitutes anything nefarious.

anonymoushn 4y ago
> The blacklisted for a year thing sounds like the normal Google, “Try again in a year” messaging that happens whenever someone doesn’t get an offer for failing interviews. Again, don’t know if that is what happened, but it hardly constitutes anything nefarious. To be clear, this is the "You are not permitted to apply for any positions at this company" messaging for people who pass interviews and fail to sign offers within 4 days.
- puffoflogic 4y ago
  That is crazy; I had the exact opposite experience I just mentioned in another comment. When I turned Google down I was told I could come back and skip the interviews any time in the next year. (Presumably no longer valid with the freeze, but still.) And this is the second time I've turned them down after getting a concrete offer! Personally I did not expect "aw shucks, hope you change your mind" when I did that and yet that's precisely what I got.

whimsicalism 4y ago

> got blacklisted for a year or more when I didn't sign it Never heard of anything like this in the non-startup industry