[tristor]

I had a radically different experience. The worst interview I've ever had was with FB about 9 years ago. I got an offer and it was significantly (like more than 2x) what I was being paid at the time and I turned it down because the interview experience was so awful I couldn't imagine working with the people who had conducted my interview. Even setting aside other ethical concerns, I've added FB to my permanent blacklist of companies I will never work for sheerly because of how shit their interview process is.

[subsubzero]

I interviewed with them 12 years ago, it was a long time ago but I remember all the interviewers felt like they had come from a funeral, everyone was absolutely miserable. I knew right then and there I could never work at a company with such negativity, also they wanted me to skip my honeymoon to start with them which I was not about to do so overall a terrible company and experience. And after I started learning about their shady business dealings I put them on a permanent blacklist to this day.

[xvector]

I interviewed with Meta a few months ago and all my interviewers were upbeat, enthusiastic, and excited. Meanwhile my Google and Amazon interviewers looked miserable and bored as fuck.

With Google it's actually been a pattern. Interviewed for them and passed HC three times, but each time I couldn't bring myself to work for them given how bored everyone looked.

[bckr]

A strategy my friend used was to get the "soft offer" and then shop around for a team for as long as it takes to find one that excited him.

[garmanarnar]

That's literally just Google's hiring practices. There is a team matching phase for all engineers.

[bckr]

Cool. This was at AWS.

[garmanarnar]

Oh neat. That is less common as it's usually the teams hiring devs directly.

[hdjjhhvvhga]

> also they wanted me to skip my honeymoon to start with them

They must be really strange folks. I can't imagine 1) a company who would propose such a thing to a (potential) employee, 2) a person who would agree to that. Seriously, WTF.

[iepathos]

Ask them for a million dollar bonus to do so and a contract saying they'll pay any losses due to divorce later on :P /s

[bitL]

Their interview process improved significantly and they had it arguably better than any other FAANG in recent years.

[ProAm]

I'm interested in any evidence about this. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing its just a extremely general statement about 5 companies with no facts behind it and would be interested to see whats different between all 5 companies in 2022 in the talent acquisition department.

[tomrod]

Eh, must have failed to push it organization-wide.

[bitL]

Well, a friend of mine was invited to an on-site interview at Google once, flew a few hours there, then arrived at the reception, waited for 7 hours, then they told him they forgot about him and he can go back home. Some people have bad experiences for many different reasons (shrug)... Pity it happened to you.