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I have two name doppelgängers on the internet. One I get spam for, the other I apparently get recruiting spam for. (We’re both software engineers.) It was deli
by jonathankoren 4y ago
I have two name doppelgängers on the internet. One I get spam for, the other I apparently get recruiting spam for. (We’re both software engineers.)
It was delightfully funny when a Google interviewer called me for a phone screen one random morning, and was quite annoyed I had no idea what they were talking about. Then I realized what happened.
“Do you think I’m an Android engineer from Yahoo?”
“Uh… yes?”
“Yeah, that’s not me.”
I later looked him up on LinkedIn. Turns out, he got the job.
- toast0 4y agoI used to get those from Google about the person with my name who worked for Microsoft doing compiler stuff. Well, I didn't take any calls, just emails. There's a lot of people with my name though... including a well-known author. I was really freaked out when I was taking a lunch break and the NPR announcer said I was to be interviewed on Fresh Air later in the day. I was woefully unprepared for such an interview; thankfully, it wasn't really me.
- jonathankoren 4y agoAlas, I can't find it, but there was a documentary quite a while ago (the 90s or aughts, maybe?) where the documentarian invited several people to dinner that all shared the same name with him. I remember thinking it was kind of weird and cool