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Interestingly large companies will often have a hiring pipeline that isn't specific to a single team and role. In the past Google made a lot of hires where the

Interestingly large companies will often have a hiring pipeline that isn't specific to a single team and role. In the past Google made a lot of hires where they first give people a phone screen, then five in-person whiteboard interviews, then the interviewers send a dossier to a committee, then that committee decides whether to hire or not, then "team matching" lets hiring managers see the resumes. So the interviews are basically conducted by random people, who have no idea what team the candidate will end up on. Of course if you look at the number of employees Google has, and the average tenure, you can see why they make hires like Ikea makes chairs.

adastra22 2y ago
Yes that is how FAANG works, but they’re the oddity. Most large organizations don’t hire that way. Google invented this method of hiring, and others copied. It is debatable whether it has been good or not for them. Usually what happens in a large org is (1) a department gets allocated a head count, and it eventually trickles down to team allocations; (2) a team needs a role that they can’t backfill from the rest of the company; (3) the team lead puts out an ad, receives resumes (directly or through HR), schedules interviews, and makes the hiring decision themselves. Exactly the same as a small company or startup in the last step.