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By: jaymartinez dot com » Why Blog? Please tell me

jaymartinez dot com » Why Blog? Please tell me — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:55:57 +0000

[...] was reading over on pthree the post of why blog, cause google might hire you and got to thinking, does anyone else do this? [...]

By: Jimmy Wennlund

Jimmy Wennlund — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:04:23 +0000

I just talked to this famous Dan, of course its fun when google is after you, but after reading about this spamming I don’t feel that selected anymore. Now i just have to wait and see if they drop me or not. I got this line: “bla bla the breadth of your background in Linux and your contributions to the open-source community, particularly through initng, which we definitely appreciate around here – it’s obviously apparent that you have the sort of passion for free software that we value. bla bla”, It looked wery personal at least

By: Kristian Erik Hermansen

Kristian Erik Hermansen — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:24:53 +0000

I was also contacted by Google. In fact, it was even Dan McCarthy So, I spoke with him a few times.

http://www.kristian-hermansen.com/wordpress/2007/05/28/google-interview-howto-by-kristian-hermansen/

The text was nearly identical. Google is spamming everyone these days…
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Kristian Erik Hermansen

By: Gerrit Holl

Gerrit Holl — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:50:03 +0000

I received exactly such an e-mail. It was different only by one line. I really wonder where they get the idea that I contributed to Python a lot, because I didn’t. I was active on c.l.py in the distant past. It must be highly automated.

By: zgoda

zgoda — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:50:36 +0000

I was contacted by him too. The email text was very similar. What was intriguing is that he sent this to my company email I really don’t use that much on the ‘net, only for 3 maillists (django, twisted and pylucene). And he mentioned my OS works which aren’t signed with this email generally.

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מקבץ יומי: בלוג יסייע להתקבל לגוגל » Ben-Ari.Name — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:52:19 +0000

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» Blog Archive » Ubuntu Demon(Roald Hopman): Google here I come :) — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:55:10 +0000

[...] got a similar mail as Aaron Toponce got from Dan McCarthy, a talent scout for the engineering team at Google. I replied by sending my [...]

By: Google here I come :) « Ubuntu Demon’s blog

Google here I come :) « Ubuntu Demon’s blog — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:23:58 +0000

[...] got a similar mail as Aaron Toponce got from Dan McCarthy, a talent scout for the engineering team at Google. I replied by sending my [...]

By: Seveas

Seveas — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:58:36 +0000

Heh, I got that mail today

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Career Blogs NDTVjobs.com » Why Blog? Because Google Might Hire You — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:36:29 +0000

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By: john

john — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:03:11 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. I did four phone interviews (different job) and I’m waiting their final answer. The interviewer told me in the last, to wait until tomorrow.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:31:05 +0000

@john- Dan was my only contact through the process, and I was given just a phone screen. I never made it to the interview process. The Hiring Committee decided that I wasn’t a good fit, probably based on my lack of Python experience.

By: john

john — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:13:16 +0000

Aaron, I’m confused about your blog post. How many times they interviewed you? Only one by that person named Dan or what ? It seems that just Dan interviewed you, forwarded your info to the hiring team (what’s that, a sort of internal committee?) and they refused your “application” ?

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:31:54 +0000

I got one of these and figured it was just spam and didn’t reply. That’s interesting to see that I was wrong and it did lead to an interview process for you.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 28 May 2007 13:53:49 +0000

Lasse- Thanks. It was definitely cool.

Jerome- Yes, I can attest to the strength of the technical questions that was asked. I imagine that had the interviewing process continued, I would’ve been swallowed up.

Regina- Thanks. Keep blogging!

phanatic, tonfa- Yes, I imagine that I was discovered through Planet Ubuntu. Still, however, the fact that they weeded me out from so many others on the planet makes me feel good. Even if I was a target.

Wilmer- Our LUG uses Google Groups for our mailing list, so it’s no doubt to me that I could’ve been discovered that way as well.

niq- Although the mail may have been unsolicited, and ‘spam’ defined in the truest sense, it was legitimate. The mail they used to contact me was my Gmail account, so it’s hosted on their servers anyway. I’m not exactly sure what you’re talking about with mail harvesting. I admit that many other people in this world probably get similar emails, and the message text that was sent to me was a form letter. I still value the experience, and will be keeping my eyes open in case other opportunities come around from other businesses.

bapoumba- Well, then they probably didn’t hire you, now did they?