Google team matching
I'm a UK-based software engineer, currently in the team-matching phase with Google. Earlier this week, I was told my feedback was good, and I had a team-matching meeting a few days later. The team match was successful and I have the option to proceed to Hiring Committee. The role seems OK but it is in a different country, whereas I'd rather remain in the UK. Can anyone provide insight into the current recruitment climate? If the outlook is poor, I am inclined to take what I have. I am also keen on moving to the US. Has anyone tried and succeeded in interviewing outside the US, but getting matched to a US team? (I'm a UK national). I see multiple posts about team-matching hell with Google. However, for each of these, there are surely many candidates we don't hear from that team-matched successfully. Therefore, I'm trying not to over-index based on the climate on Blind.
If you get a job at any HCOL area regardless of US or UK there’s a high probability that your job will eventually move to India or Brazil and you will be laid off. If their offer location is in a LCOL country you will be much safer there.
That hasn’t been my experience and I’ve worked on distributed teams in US and South Asia. We hired in both locations continuously. It’s not as simple as one country is cheaper than the other. There’s value in American engineers being in compatible time zones with the rest of the company and American engineers tend to understand the customer needs better. Although it is easy to imagine a dysfunctional company targeting the Americans in a belt tightening or survival scenario.
@pziH64, not sure if you’re a current employee of Google, but I think @H5dsa’s comment is more specific to what’s happening at Google nowadays and I agree with his/her assessment. Google has almost no headcount in the US and jobs are being offshored to LCOL countrues like Brazil, India, or Poland.
Obviously the rest of the world has its own issues, but this is a historically bad time to move to the US. There are still some bright spots but it’s hard even for Americans to know which state to live in — we’ve had massive state-to-state migration the last decade or so. Places change quickly due to all this moving. The most appealing thing about Tampa used to be that it’s cheap. It’s been one of the fastest growing cities the last few years and so, of course, it’s had the highest inflation. I moved from San Francisco to Seattle in 2019 and the only thing that was better was the income tax. It still might be worth moving here from the UK but be aware that the tech heavy cities in America like San Francisco and Seattle are genuine dystopias now.
Thank you for the insights, It’s not a decision I take lightly and there’s a lot to consider
Why do you say Seattle has the only good thing which in state tax? Is the weather that bad? How about house prices there? Currently in the Bay Area and thinking of Seattle