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I thought there were some really interesting tidbits in there and I enjoyed reading about the office environment. About the information that they're hiring - has there ever been a time when Google wasn't hiring? (I mean that seriously, not to be snarky.)

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About a year ago Google had a layoff and stopped hiring.

This was personally frustrating, because I got through the interview process in Feb, got approved by the hiring committee, then headcount was not approved. Which put me in a state of indefinite limbo. So I had found a different job by the time they contacted me again in October.

Woah, I really did squeak in under the wire. I got through the interview process in December and started in January. They actually did an end run around Larry Page and had a quorum of other VPs approve my app, because he was on vacation that week and I had another offer I was pretty close to taking.

Did you have to interview again in October, or did they just reactivate your previous offer?

I wound up in a very different position from what I'd applied for, so they did a phone interview with my potential manager to decide whether I needed to come in for another on site interview.

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