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Subject: Re: [9fans] google.com job search
Date: Thu,  2 Aug 2007 06:24:41 -1000
From: john@csplan9.rit.edu
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> 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