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The process starts with a hiring manager reaching out for a position they are trying to fill, but sometimes after the interview we realized someone was amazing but not a fit for our team, so we would refer them to another team.

But most companies hire for a specific position. The way Google does it is the outlier.

It maybe different from Facebook and Google, but is hiring for positions on teams that unique? That's how my employer does it. A lot of our public facing job ads are for specific teams. We have a few general public-facing job ads but I think team/group matching is done early in the process for those also.

That is how most companies actually hire.

On my team at Apple it worked this way at well - most teams were in charge of their own interviewing and job offerings were for a particular team.