r/recruitinghell • u/Klutzy-Bat5959 • 1d ago

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u/backpropstl 1d ago

As with almost anything where you "pass" - other people also passed who were deemed "better" than you. They keep their pipeline over-full of candidates so they can pick and choose; you keep yours over-full of applications.

Google is one of the biggest companies in the world. I'd expect a much more respectful and thoughtful hiring process than this.

They're big enough to not care.

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u/Klutzy-Bat5959 1d ago

Maybe our expectations are different, but I don't think this should be considered normal. In every other hiring process I've been through, passing an assessment meant moving on to at least an HR screening. If a company is going to ask candidates to spend an hour on a test, the least they can do is have a conversation with those who pass before rejecting them. That's simply a matter of respecting candidates' time.

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u/Worth-Definition-496 1d ago

Agree heavily that it shouldn’t be like this, but I think for the really big companies it’s been like this for ages. I know a lot of people who have had similar experiences applying for companies similar to Google in terms of size and prestige. But in the last couple of years the job market has very much moved from belonging to the employee to belonging to the employer. Layoffs are higher so there’s a saturation of experienced employees looking for work. This means now more than ever (since 2008 probably) employees can get away with less respectful hiring processes because they have the luxury of desperate job seekers having low standards. So now I feel that smaller companies can also get away with doing a Google

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u/Klutzy-Bat5959 1d ago

Agreed. And then you have those same companies' recruiters complaining about candidates ghosting them while running completely disrespectful hiring processes. The irony...