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Several years back when I applied for a Google internship, I missed some emails from my recruiter (soandso@google.com) because they went to my gmail spam folder

• jeffbee 6mo ago
  There is a good reason for this. Part of Google maintains the principle that their own traffic has to go through the same classification process as all other mails. Other parts of Google can't stop themselves from sending spam from what are supposed to be gold-plated VIPs. Consequently, some of Google's own behaviors have poor reputation and some legitimate transactional messages are collateral damage.
  • lysace 6mo ago
    > Other parts of Google can't stop themselves from sending spam from what are supposed to be gold-plated VIPs. Seems like a badly run company. (Insert that caricature of the MSFT org chart with guns pointing in all directions.)
    • em-bee 6mo ago
      at that scale i don't believe it is possible to do much better on this particular issue at least.
      • bell-cot 6mo ago
        Make email reputation a performance metric for upper-level managers, and the situation will improve within hours.
    • stackskipton 6mo ago
      MSFT has same policy. Office365 does not treat Microsoft.com emails any differently. Only exception is Office365 transactional emails. This seems logical, you don’t want your service to get a bad rep because some internal division marketing team goes dumb. Also, security in case individuals get hacked.