Nov 2019 - interviews
Dec 2019 - passed hiring committee
Dec to June 2020 - emailed recruiter every two weeks never heard back
June 2020 - cold email from recruiter “here is your offer letter to join Google! Let's talk team match.”
Needless to say I did not accept that job. This was for a software engineer role.
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Many weeks to generate offer and paper work and then 24 hrs to accept with a "take or leave it" ultimatum.
Just a very poor taste and I know some fine people who work at Google. Its unfortunate they don't seem to value warmth and humaneness when communicating externally
Noped out of that as quick as I could.
It crushed me because I found a team that I was unbelievably excited to work with.
Me and a friend of mine interviewed in Nov and passed HC in Dec 2019 as well (different recruiters between the two of us). Our experience was different from yours: Immediate timely followups from the recruiting coordinators, team-matched and hired in the same month. Hopefully our experience is more common...