I have been in meta team matching since 1st week of March. Not a single call. I am curious how long will they consider me ? HR isn’t any helpful and do not respond to my emails nor any transparent about the process E5 - infra in Seattle area Blind tax : 360k
Honestly this new process sucks! We’re moving towards Google wait times. Sorry about it. If you can, try to be very flexible with location. With Bay Area, Seattle, and NYC having the most roles in general. That’s really my only tip. Good luck.
I have family in Seattle, hence Seattle is my only option. But I am open to all pillars. Yet no single call. Do you know if there any teams that are hiring for e5 in Seattle ?
I did some digging and internally folks are complaining about this shitty experience. HMs are preferring internal candidates, so things will settle around which roles need to be backfilled in h2 probably. By July everyone wants to be settled into a role because you still have time to make impact. I suspect external candidates will have more options starting then. I’m reading of horrendous stories, recruiters ghosting, etc. my suggestion is for candidates to become louder. Ping directors and VPs on LinkedIn until they see how broken the process is. We will continue to push for change internally. All the best.
The situation is not better in the Bay Area either. My location is Menlo Park and I only had 1 call so far and then nothing. I'm sorry folks but this is worse than Google
It is becoming worse. I heard there were not many headcount at the moment and even it is, internal transfer quickly filled it up. Prepare for a long time march or look elsewhere. So far I know at least a bunch of E5 (a lot more than you may think, include myself) in the pool waiting for match in Bay Area but not a single team reached after weeks and months. I doubted most of us would be either left in the pool drowning or dumped brutally after some time.
I wonder what their rationale is for doing this? Piss a bunch of people off, waste a lot of your engs time. What are the pros? To be able to low ball as much as you want and some lowly soul from the 800 people in the queue will take it? Maybe also to be able to PIP aggressively
Theres couple ppl in match since jan, some even before 2024 lol
That’s scary. Why interview and waste time if there no positions to hire. 6 months in TM 😨