I interviewed last June at Google and hit the hiring freeze. I finally got a team match in November, for which an offer letter never materialized. It was for an

I interviewed last June at Google and hit the hiring freeze. I finally got a team match in November, for which an offer letter never materialized. It was for an ML team and -- anecdotally -- all the people I know there who were laid off were working on ML projects. Personally, I've given up. Maybe I'll try again in a couple years but I'd say the whole thing was just a waste of time.