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		bckr on Sept 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of r... A strategy my friend used was to get the "soft offer" and then shop around for a team for as long as it takes to find one that excited him.

garmanarnar on Sept 29, 2022 [–]

That's literally just Google's hiring practices. There is a team matching phase for all engineers.

bckr on Sept 30, 2022 | [–]

Cool. This was at AWS.

garmanarnar on Oct 4, 2022 | | [–]

Oh neat. That is less common as it's usually the teams hiring devs directly.

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