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2026 Q1
Went from Google vs Ai lab to no offers in 2 days
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Finished interview loops with Xai and Google last week, both went well. Xai interview told me I’m definitely passing and from Google I had 1 bad round and my recruiter told me I can fuck up once. Got
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Finished interview loops with Xai and Google last week, both went well. Xai interview told me I’m definitely passing and from Google I had 1 bad round and my recruiter told me I can fuck up once. Got an email yesterday from xAi that they stopped hiring for that role because company is changing direction. Got a call from Google this morning that I got a rejection because I had 1 bad coding round and 1 bad Googlyness round. Was blind-sighted by the behavior round since I thought it went well. I asked for feedback on that round and he told me he only has feedback for coding rounds. My interviewer was a L3 who joined Google 2-3 months ago. Months of prep wasted on “unlucky” hiring and a 2 month old new grad assessing my leadership skills inadequate with no feedback on how to improve. Great. I’m so tired I don’t even wanna touch leetcode ever again
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