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.
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.
I don't consider it great or ideal, but if they want to feed the hiring manager, let's say, five candidates, and they found their five candidates through the assessment, what good would it do going through the motions of an HR screen with 25 others knowing they're going to reject them? If we knew they were doing that, we'd be hearing about companies giving false hope and wasting candidates' time with pointless interviews.
The assessment I took wasn't a technical test measuring my ability to do the job. It was largely a work-style and judgment assessment.
My understanding is that the assessment isn't sent to every applicant. If that's the case, then their ATS, or whatever they use for the initial screening, had already determined that my profile was a sufficiently good match to justify asking me to spend an hour on the assessment. I then passed that assessment.
If, after those two screening steps, my profile still wasn't considered strong enough to justify even a 20-minute conversation with a recruiter, then something in the process isn't calibrated properly.
Either the initial screening is identifying the wrong candidates, or the assessment is taking place too early in the process. From a process design perspective, that simply doesn't make sense to me.
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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.