So contrary to some self-inflicted
rumors, I’m not off to Google London or Sydney. My wife has taken a new
contract here in Adelaide so we’ll be staying here for at least another
12 months.
It is kind of disappointing, but I’ve been doing the Google
recruiting process for a week short of 3 months now, been though 5
interviews (with somewhat mixed results - yes, I’ll do a post about
that), turned down the opportunity to do more interviews for some
position I had no interest in and the last message I had from Google HR
was that they would have “concrete clarification” about other positions
for me on Wednesday. That was Wednesday three weeks ago.
So apparently Google have done studies
which show that slowing page load times from 0.5 to 0.9 seconds cuts
traffic by 20% - people just don’t wait around. Perhaps I might
recommend a similar study for the recruitment process?
OTOH, all the Google engineering staff I met or talked to were
great. So all in all it was a mixed experience - if you are thinking
about trying it I’d recommend it, but I’d also recommend not trying
anything too complicated (like saying yes to a recruiter from another
continent..)
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