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Not sure about this anymore. You dont seem to get interviews at google anymore if you apply directly via the website. Much like the support policy for their "products," you need to know someone within, be aligned politically from your past with the person and only then get a call. In short, Google has become good at hiring cliques.

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finally someone said it out loud. It is so hard to even get a call if you do not go through a referral. Hard to say it is a google problem as the pool they can access is one of the biggest in the world.

Isn't this really true about most companies of a certain size? Applying via online application system always seems to be a first class ticket to ghosting or automated rejection letter.

I don't think I've ever gotten a single positive response from applying to any company via their online application system. Every interview I've ever gotten from any company was via a recruiter reaching out first, or through an internal referral.

Having said that, there was a Google recruiter I had spoken to in the past, but I had declined to interview back then due to being in the process of getting married. Reached out to him last week but seem to have been ghosted.

spouse faced the same with facebook- reached out earlier but had another offer then. Reached out later but ghosted.

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