I've recently finished my on-site Google interviews (Dublin based role). The interviews went very well however I've been reading on the news about potential layoffs, etc and I'm wondering if the hiring committee's are going to be more selective now then they previously have been (e.g compared to 6, 12, 24 months ago).
Does anyone know whether this would be the case, or are HC decisions isolated from wider-political and financial changes in the industry/company?
For some context, there is no competition for the role, it was specifically created for me and I'm the only candidate (I'm a current fixed-term researcher).
When I did an on site interview, I had a Google interviewer get two inches from my face and scream, then the rest of them smirk as I was on edge the rest of the day.
It's my understanding that's not ok, especially if someone is on the autistic spectrum, but they seemed focused on a few questions about statistics I didn't give the corredt answer on.
I'd try to look into other places to interview, rather than chase this lead.
(I interviewed in Mountain View, not Dublin, and to be fair, this was around the Summer of Snowden -- in parallel, someone who'd flamed me on OkCupid declined to interview me at Facebook, Mozilla didn't hire me on, and Micro$soft is Micro$oft, so my next move ended up being an NGO.)
They are going to do what they want to do, I would just wait for them to decide your future rather than waste emotional energy trying to change the inevitable.