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[vivid sorrel]

Congrats! How was team matching process for you?

[wind echo]

stressful

I only got like 3 matches and the only one that I liked dropped out before I could talk to them. Leveraged my experience to reach out to hiring managers in my technical area on LinkedIn and got the match through that

[vivid sorrel]

Thanks! how was the timeline? Do you remember how long it takes for the recruiter to match you up?

[fickle swallow]

Congrats! How long it takes for recruiter move to team match after done the final?

[half blaze]

How did u reach out to managers? Did you just find random people and send them connection requests with a message?

[wind echo]

Only managers where I had experience in their area

@vivid sorrel @half blaze
Timeline:
Dec 15: passed OA
--Leetcode intermission--
Jan 4: Interview
Jan 16: team match questionare
Jan 19: Team matches came out
Feb 5: team matched, offer extended

[sterile mountain]

How exactly does the team match process work? I filled out the team match form recently, do the teams email you or a recruiter does?

[wind echo]

recruiter emails you with a list of teams willing to hire you. My understanding is that they put your profile in a chat or something and diff managers look at it

at least thats what I heard (I think from blind or here)

[sterile mountain]

Ok that makes sense thank you

[sterile mountain]

Do you get more teams if you don’t match w any of the first teams? Like if you don’t like the first few team, do they give more the week after?

[wind echo]

Yes my understanding is that you just go back to team matching

[sterile mountain]

What location did u wind up selecting?

[wind echo]

Redmond. Came in wanting MPK or NYC but team was best choice

[orchid ingot]

how were the actual team match interviews? Is it mostly you gauging to see if its the right fit/are there things to prepare for? Also congrats hope to join u soon!!!

[hexed plinth]

Curious how’s your resume look as far as school and experience?

[jovial gazelle]

didn’t u get any teams from these 2 loc

[normal geode]

"leveraged your experience to reach out to hiring managers"?? tf does that mean

in my experience no one gives af about your "experience" if you're just a rando messaging them on linkedin

congrats on offer

[fickle swallow]

You waited 12 days to get the results of final?

[wind echo]

I said that cuz I messaged teams doing exactly what I have experience interning for at a direct competitor and explained my situation, they said my experience was relevant and contacted my recruiter

[wind echo]

easy, they are trying to sell to you

[wind echo]

good school, good companies on resume

[normal geode]

you messaged meta managers on linkedin saying you were in teams matching for meta, yes?

and then in addition you described your experience etc.

[wind echo]

yes

[wind echo]

yes

maybe bad wording, what I meant is that if ur looking to do the same it might help if u have exp in same domain as the team cuz response rates are low in my experience and the only team I got was basically a direct mapping

[normal geode]

I agree, being proactive about this is a great idea

[half blaze]

how many days did you wait for the recruiter to reach out to you with a list of teams that were interested?

[tropic ocean]

.

[wind echo]

Like 3 days

Yeah 3 days

[green charm]

that's fast. my recruiter came back to me after a week and said no manager has been interested to you.

[half blaze]

Wait so what do u do now?

Are u no longer being considered?

[wind echo]

I heard it slowed down

My friend had 10 matches off the bat

I had 3

He was like a few weeks before me

I heard some ppl now getting 1

[half blaze]

One of my friends said they got 30 at the beginning of the year ☠️

[wind echo]

Wow

It’s also performance review season so maybe it’s cuz of that

[green charm]

wait for more hc. now mgr like ppl who can join asap, not graduate in April/May/June

[half blaze]

So like should I just send hella LinkedIn connection requests to anyone who works at meta?

[wind echo]

Yeah I’m dropping out to join ASAP

They said I have to join in March

[half blaze]

Bruh

[green charm]

and meta just finish performance review, which means internal transfer just opened.

they perfer other teams' E3 who can join like literally second day

[wind echo]

That makes sense

[green charm]

not somebody join in half year and still fill team's hc

[jovial gazelle]

r u preferring any particular loc

[green charm]

no. just reach out to a manager myself and they said onboarding time is top 1 thing they consider. like if you can join Feb then every team would hire you, but if you join after June then goodbye not a chance.

[jovial gazelle]

I believe many in the process or have offer are may grads, so it’s over for us

[green charm]

mgr said he would consider me with one condition that is no one can join sooner than me. he does not care about my resume or any other thing.

[jovial gazelle]

I think it’s will be really tough.

[green charm]

he said for most org, June is the time for perfermance review and new hc would open. So using first half year's hc to hire somebody onboarding on second half year would be a waste.

[jovial gazelle]

hope we make it.

[green charm]

maybe we will just have to wait until July to get second round hc but hope we can make it sooner.

[normal geode]

that's so ironic considering the fact they're refusing to hire laid off talent pool that would be precisely looking to start asap

if they have time preference then why are they hiring new grads

when there have never been more unemployed industry hires in the entire history of the tech market

instead they are focusing on hiring ng and seniors/leads

[green charm]

it's meta hiring system's problem, in previous years meta holds bootcamp for six months and mgr can only pick ng in certain period, so they don't actually have a choice to find someone early onboarding, now they cancel the bootcamp and so many ppl in the pool, reverse the bargain power.

[normal geode]

and btw it isn't just meta that's doing this

seems like most faang/big tech prioritizing in this fashion rn

if this trend continues, take advantage of your position as NG as best you can and land something worthwhile

don't expect to job hop to faang at 1yoe or something - especially not in this market

[chrome rampart]

how many people in the pool are actually willing to do something as drastic as dropping out though? a meta job you could possibly be laid off in a month after is a big risk for that commitment

[wind echo]

yes but I didnt like the technical area

no NYC just MPK

[wind echo]

dropping out was over statement lol

leave of absence, i already have enough credits to graduate

[chrome rampart]

I'm also stuck in team matching and leave of absence is maybe something I could do as well, so I'm considering also reaching out to managers

[wind echo]

def do it, every team I talked to was looking for people now

[chrome rampart]

if I got a nyc position I could also prob graduate while working lol

[wind echo]

lmao bg check might fck u though

[chrome rampart]

didn't we already pass the bg check? or do they do another one 😦

[wind echo]

she told me to submit my letter saying I was doing leave of absence but done with credits when "the background check team reaches out for more information on your degree" even though I already did it

[chrome rampart]

hmm that would be a problem for me since I still need two classes + finish thesis

[wind echo]

I heard team matching is valid for 1 year, so no matter what happens I think ur fine

[chrome rampart]

I hope so lol

[normal geode]

I think being proactive about it, as abiotic has, is definitely a good habit to have

[lunar orchid]

@wind echo where all the OA meduim?

[wind echo]

I found one of them to be hard and the rest pretty easy

[round thunder]

I was told by my recruiter to not to message managers 💀

[wind echo]

Mine was very thankful that I did it, idk

[round thunder]

She told me to not reach out because she wants everything to go through the Meta. Then she was like "To be transparent, I haven't even posted your profile to be viewed by managers." 💀

She did set up a call with the manager for me though so that was nice ig

[wind echo]

thats so weird

I guess everything is up to the recruiter

[willow meteor]

Can I ask how did u do on your finals? did you do 4/4 optimal solution??

[wind echo]

Yes 4/4 but not flawless, hints and mistake on first interview but got there

[stuck schooner]

My recruiter too

[stuck schooner]

Did ur recruiter not say this in the initial team match email?

Mine is very explicit

That I don’t do this

[wind echo]

Nah not at all

[green charm]

what's your recruiter's initial?

[harsh jewel]

how many prev internships? any faang?