[ricardobeat]

> for a position this high up

There are probably thousands of 'director of engineering' or similar roles at Google. If it's anything like other companies, they will be managing something like ~50 people. It's a middle management role, not that high up - except in compensation relative to the median...

[BoorishBears]

Are we really downplaying being an L8 at Google now?

[ricardobeat]

The point is that for a role with 1000 seats, at a turnover of 10% and the usual acceptance rate of 0.1-1%, they will be interviewing thousands of people for this role every year. It's not gonna be a white-gloves process like hiring a C-level.

[BoorishBears]

See sibling comment, and also there is a gulf between C-level hiring loop and throwing clearly non-technical recruiters at L8s.

They didn't even need a technical recruiter, having the recruiter do their thing when it comes to soft aspects, like lightly checking dates, seeing if the person seems interested, etc. Then bringing in someone technical to review the technical stuff... it's really not asking that much.

[aiisjustanif]

L7 is < 3% and L8 is < 1% about of all of the employees specifically in the engineering department. Should be much less than 1000.

[ricardobeat]

I'm going by headcount numbers found online. 4% of 27000 is >1000. And HR is probably dealing with hiring for director roles among the other 100k non-engineering employees as well.