> "For now I think Google can get away with it but I feel like in a few years we're going to be seeing articles about Google's 'brain drain'."
I feel like we're already there. A few years ago everyone was trying to work for Google, but I rarely hear about them in conversations nowadays.
I'm not going to puff a lot of hot air about how awesome I am - but I do get a lot of interest whenever I'm on the market, and Google's process is simply too slow and too convoluted to interest me. Though Google pays well they, by a long shot, not the only players paying within their range.
The last time I was on the market I was able to line up phone screens within 2-3 days of first contact, and on-sites the same week or the week after. Companies would decide on an offer/no-offer/more-talk-needed disposition within a day or two of the on-site.
And all of these were companies paying at the top end of market, working on cool products with roles that would offer a lot of fulfillment.
I just don't see why I'd put up with months-long processes getting hopped from one recruiter to the next and having endless exhausting interviews.
I feel like we're already there. A few years ago everyone was trying to work for Google, but I rarely hear about them in conversations nowadays.
I'm not going to puff a lot of hot air about how awesome I am - but I do get a lot of interest whenever I'm on the market, and Google's process is simply too slow and too convoluted to interest me. Though Google pays well they, by a long shot, not the only players paying within their range.
The last time I was on the market I was able to line up phone screens within 2-3 days of first contact, and on-sites the same week or the week after. Companies would decide on an offer/no-offer/more-talk-needed disposition within a day or two of the on-site.
And all of these were companies paying at the top end of market, working on cool products with roles that would offer a lot of fulfillment.
I just don't see why I'd put up with months-long processes getting hopped from one recruiter to the next and having endless exhausting interviews.