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I finished my final round(s) for a TAM position at Google (GCP) last week and was told by my recruiter that my feedback was great and that I made a solid impression on the team and am "firmly in the running". I was supposed to hear back this week (according to the recruiter) but he just told me that it's still in the process and that I'll have to wait for another week or so.
Is this common at Google ? I have heard they are notorious for being really slow with their hiring process.
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Nope. Nobody is going to promote you or care if you leave. You are well easily replaceable.
Take the interview and if offered, take to new job. 2x salary is no joke.
And you may be “starting to do some cool stuff now” but that is fleeting and not not guaranteed. With 2 x salary and less hours you can do cool stuff in real life.
Realistically, this is indeed probably the best course of action. Best of luck in the interview. Doubling your salary nowadays is no easy feat.
Could you share more information? There’re lots of scenarios here. If you are at AMV, Adam&Eve, W+K, Mother or Droga5, on 35K-45K, staying for 2-3 more years and producing a couple of award-winning campaigns is worth the long hours: you’ll be paid well for the next 10 years, you’ll find good jobs easier, you’ll make connections. The only in-house job worth considering in that case would be something like Spotify.
If you are at JWT, Publicis, Ogilvy, Iris, etc, and people around you don’t produce any award-winning work - you won’t lose much by going in-house for a couple of years, even if it’s for EVE mattresses.
I believe it is, unfortunately, the only long term survival strategy. With agencies dying and markets shrinking, in 5-7 years those securely employed and paid well will be the creatives with great books, good CVs, decent awards and, more importantly, craft skills that can’t be acquired in-house on banner jobs.
This exact scenario happened in the film industry around 2005-2011. With the death of DVD and video rentals, film companies couldn’t afford to produce as many B and C-rate movies. So thousands of B and C-rate actors, directors, producers and screenwriters were suddenly out of jobs. But most of the A-listers have been doing just fine and probably became richer.
Depends on how your book is. If it’s solid take the money. If not, you don’t want to be stuck doing menial work that won’t make your book and have no way out
👆this really, “experience” as a creative doesn’t really help in the long run, it’s the work you produced professionally that will get you the jobs you want in the future. Saying that, I don’t see why you can’t do good work in house. Not an easy one.
I think the in-house role would be mostly banners and boring shit like that so I really don’t want to leave. Still, money is tight around these parts (London).
Being a year in, could I parlay this potential offer into a raise/promotion?
I think it depends what career you want for yourself. I pledged to myself five years ago I would one day make an ad that’s in Luerzer’s Archive but life happened.
I have an SO who has a chronic condition and I am the only one to work, so I’ve had to take less desirable jobs because of money. They were good jobs, but they were a bit boring.
Similar to what VP said, I would take some of my jobs home and reimagine them if you will.
So this is completely your call. Is there a job in London this will pay you what you deserve to make cool stuff? If so, the fastest way to your foot in the door is to make cool stuff. If you can use 2x the money, then see where this order job leads.
It seems there was miscommunication of a transcontinental scale and the opportunity was in London, Ontario. No way in hell I’m moving there so it’s a non-starter but I seriously appreciate the advice. Thank you and have a lovely weekend y’all.
Yeah that was probably intentional to at least get initial engagement from potential candidates. Sorry, that blows but thanks for the update.