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And there are people like me, who get pinged via some channel (linkedin, email, phone, etc) by google recruiters ad nauseam. And every time, tell them no thank

by elq 19y ago

And there are people like me, who get pinged via some channel (linkedin, email, phone, etc) by google recruiters ad nauseam. And every time, tell them no thank you. In the beginning you'll be polite, after three years you'll ask them politely to go pound sand. Why? I have many friends that work there. I have many friends that work there only because they hope it'll get better once they make it into the "inner circle". These are not people who work on podunk projects, think indexing, crawling, gmail. Further, these same friends are hyper paranoid that they'll let something slip in good ol technical banter that we used to do; because google is soo damn secretive and the penalties range from simple hazing to termination if their slip of the lip was known (and I'm not talking about it showing up on techcrunch or vallywag or even a personal blog).

cperciva 19y ago
And there are people like me, who get pinged via some channel (linkedin, email, phone, etc) by google recruiters ad nauseam. And every time, tell them no thank you. A year after I turned down Google's offer, I started getting poked repeatedly by Google recruiters (I'm guessing that after a year, the new employee referral bonus is up for grabs again). I complained to a friend of mine who works at Google, and he had someone put "DO NOT CONTACT" on my file -- and I haven't had a single email from their recruiters since. I don't know if you can get the same thing added to your file, but it might be worth asking.
- elq 19y ago
  hrm. I've never tried that. but you know, google's mission is to "organize all of the world's information". I assume this includes HR info as well. With all of that data and all of the high-end machine learning talent that works there, you'd figure that they would be able to learn when someone has no interest working there.
  - cperciva 19y ago
    I think you vastly overestimate the organizational abilities of Google recruiters. I have friends who, while working at Google, had recruiters contact them to ask if they were interested in working for Google. I'd say listening to what someone is saying and assessing whether they might be more interested six months later requires far more sophisticated thought processes than looking up whether someone already works at Google before trying to recruit them -- so making sure that you're very explicit about what you want them to do (mark your file as 'do not contact') is probably a good idea.

by elq 19y ago

cperciva 19y ago

And there are people like me, who get pinged via some channel (linkedin, email, phone, etc) by google recruiters ad nauseam. And every time, tell them no thank you. A year after I turned down Google's offer, I started getting poked repeatedly by Google recruiters (I'm guessing that after a year, the new employee referral bonus is up for grabs again). I complained to a friend of mine who works at Google, and he had someone put "DO NOT CONTACT" on my file -- and I haven't had a single email from their recruiters since. I don't know if you can get the same thing added to your file, but it might be worth asking.

elq 19y ago
hrm. I've never tried that. but you know, google's mission is to "organize all of the world's information". I assume this includes HR info as well. With all of that data and all of the high-end machine learning talent that works there, you'd figure that they would be able to learn when someone has no interest working there.
- cperciva 19y ago
  I think you vastly overestimate the organizational abilities of Google recruiters. I have friends who, while working at Google, had recruiters contact them to ask if they were interested in working for Google. I'd say listening to what someone is saying and assessing whether they might be more interested six months later requires far more sophisticated thought processes than looking up whether someone already works at Google before trying to recruit them -- so making sure that you're very explicit about what you want them to do (mark your file as 'do not contact') is probably a good idea.