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I "succeessfully cleared" full interview loops two times and didnt get an offer, didnt get past phone screens two times. recently i got another call from Google and I said

"no, thank you. either i am not a good fit or you are using me to have a reasonable pool of candidates to compare against."

the entire process is very lengthy, slow, often interacting with rude interviewers, with no eta on if an offer will be made and no reasonable explanation on why they did not make an offer. One time the reason I got was "we no longer need to fill that position" after 3 months of interview loop.

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I experienced a very similar broken interview process, but with Amazon (AWS). It appears this is more common at the big tech companies than I thought , judging from your comment and all the others in this thread.

I was contacted three times for the same position, until I also had to tell the recruiter 'no thank you, remove me from all future positions'.

The first time I was scheduled to fly into Seattle, they even asked me what I wanted for lunch! Then 1 week before the flight, they cancelled everything, reason 'none given', just 'we will keep you on file'. A different recruiter contacted me a second time 3 months later, I thought to schedule the Seattle interview, but I was told it was 'a different hiring manager' and I needed to do the phone screens again. So I did, after the phone screens, I was given the canned email 'we cannot extend another interview..'. Then the same recruiter contacts me again a month later to see if I wanted to interview! At which point I just declined.

Amazon does hire for specific positions, so if a manager picked your resume but hired someone else first, you get dropped until another manager picks your resume.

Which itself is something of a broken process, but hey.

Similar thing happened to me.. went through a very lengthy interview process and successfully passed it where they called me the day after and said that they were going to give me an offer the next day! I was ecstatic.

They then called me the next day and said "oh, yeah -- we aren't going to give you an offer" and wouldnt give me a reason.

The next time, they attempted to recruit me for the same position and I went through several days of phone interviews passing each one. Then I said -- "so you know, I interviewed for this position before and was told I would get an offer, but then didnt" they went back and checked and then said "Yeah we wont be continuing the interview process"

Then it happened a third time! Finally I sent the recruiter an email that said "This is the third time you have attempted to recruit me for this position -- Either offer me the job, with a salaray of X or take me out of your system and stop calling me"

They haven't called me since -- and I still have no idea why I am blacklisted.

You told them to stop calling you.... So they stopped calling you.

I think he means before he told them to stop calling. It seemed like in the second interview after he said, "I already interviewed for this position," they suddenly wanted nothing to do with him for some odd reason.

Same thing here. It seemed like what they were really after is finding out my current employer's pay scale for engineers with my amount of experience. They never even officially rejected me. I had to call them to find out what the situation was.

If you are a software engineer, "we no longer need to fill that position" is impossible, because Google uses a general allocation model, not a specific team seat model.

They can't provide a "reasonable explanation" for passing on any candidate because of legal issues. No major company that I know of does that for the same reason.

The term "Rooney Rule" does come to mind.

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