Re: [9fans] google.com job search

["Noah Evans" <noah.evans@gmail.com>]

Hey John,

If it makes you feel any better about the legitimacy of the offer, a
friend of mine is a package maintainer for gentoo and google recruited
him through that.

Good luck getting your internship,

Noah

On 8/3/07, john@csplan9.rit.edu <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
> > Sorry for the way off topic post, but it's summer, and it's
> > slow, and I recently got an email
> > from someone at google.com letting me know that they
> > were hiring. As far as I can tell, the email is legit. They're
> > not even asking for my name, SSN, bank account numbers, etc.
> > I assume that since many of you, unlike me, really are
> > programmers, or software engineers as google seems to
> > like to call them, you have gotten these emails before too.
> > What I'm curious about is why I got the email. The sender
> > said that she had seen some of my online posts. Is it just
> > because I post to 9fans and have posted to various FreeBSD
> > mailing lists? Does google just use its own search capabilities
> > and send out periodic posts to people in certain groups? What
> > sort of search criteria do you think they use?
> >
> > Just wondering, thanks.
> >
> > Greg
>
> As an engineering student who will need another job this winter,
> I looked upon this as something worth checking out. I did a bit of
> googling, found that the number given was indeed in Mountainview,
> CA and that the emails seem to be coming from inside Google.
> I figured there was no harm trying, so I replied. I got an email the next
> day saying that they found 9fans posts and made the connection
> to Rob Pike. It *sounds* legitimate, so I'm going to continue emailing
> and try to set up a phone conversation. If anyone knows something
> I don't, please share it.
>
>
> John "needs a winter internship" Floren
>
>