On: What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?

[ayberk]

Not quite. If you pass the hiring committee, you have one year to find a team. So it's more like your interview result is good for a year. After you match with a team you get the actual offer and it has the usual deadlines.

Hiring processed has changed though, so I'm not sure if this is still true.

[luckydata → ayberk]

team matching has been removed. Now you get interviewed for a specific role, which streamlines the process quite a bit and saves time for everyone.

[anonymoushn → ayberk]

I have not found 4 days to be a usual deadline at any other company.