[9fans] google.com job search

[9fans] google.com job search

[Gregory Pavelcak]

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

Re: [9fans] google.com job search

[john]

> 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

Re: [9fans] google.com job search

[Noah Evans]

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
>
>

Re: [9fans] google.com job search

[Kris Maglione]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:14:41PM -0400, Gregory Pavelcak 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.

It seems that nearly everyone who's posted to 9fans in the last 
several months has recieved such emails. I've been just as 
baffeled as you are. They obviously come via Google's internal 
network, and only have @google.com email addreses, but I don't 
believe that they're 'legit'.

-- 
Kris Maglione

If you have to park six blocks away, you will find two
new parking spaces right in front of the building
entrance.

Re: [9fans] google.com job search

[David Hendricks]

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A couple quick comments to clear things up here...

On 8/2/07, Gregory Pavelcak <g.pavelcak@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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.


Yep ;-) And there are lots of great jobs for non-programmers as well so
don't be shy about your talent. If you're a hard worker and into geeky
things we've probably got an opening for you.

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?


We use an army of recruiters and sourcers who relentlessly search for
promising candidates. No bots or untargeted solicitations (spam) or anything
of that nature, though it wouldn't surprise me if people on this list tend
to show up brighter on their radar than people elsewhere on the web. My
guess is that your visibility here and on other mailing lists helped a lot
in that regard.

I think I know the person you're talking about -- she's one of the more tech
savvy recruiters I've known and can be seen poaching talent from various
expos, trade shows, conferences and wherever else people with relevant
experience tend hang out on-line and off. She's also a really cool person
and I recommend talking with her. If you are at all interested, please don't
hesitate to send your resume directly to us or you may go through
www.google.com/jobs .

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