[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