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That doesn't change the fact that tech folk are unique in being so lucky in the current economic climate to be complaining about getting asked about job opporun

by jcdavis 13y ago

That doesn't change the fact that tech folk are unique in being so lucky in the current economic climate to be complaining about getting asked about job opporunities. I know plenty of people in other skilled fields who would be happy to hear back from any of the many companies they ask about jobs at

nknighthb 13y ago
I don't think you fully understood my comment. Contact by a Google recruiter does not constitute a job opportunity. It constitutes a waste of time on a massive scale. Replace them with automated spambots and the effect is the same.
- jcdavis 13y ago
  And I don't think you fully understood mine. Regardless of the effectiveness (or lack therefore) of their recruiters, Google is still has over a thousand open positions (look for yourself: https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/ https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/). None of my civil engineer friends are getting spammed by companies.
  - nknighthb 13y ago
    No non-Google tech employers are spamming people over and over again either. You're trying to turn a Google discussion into an industry discussion, which is just silly. This is about a Google problem, not an industry problem.
- kamaal 13y ago
  They very fact that we are now treating being contacted by recruiters as 'spam' shows the attitude of how we treat opportunities. When being contacted for a >$100K an year job looks like annoyance you know we have lived too much in luxury and have no clue about the kind of problems ordinary people face.
  - nknighthb 13y ago
    > They very fact that we are now treating being contacted by recruiters as 'spam' shows the attitude of how we treat opportunities. No, it shows that Google's recruitment practices are broken and annoying. They contact a huge number of people who have absolutely no chance of being hired. > When being contacted for a >$100K an year job Again, that isn't what's happening here. It's not even how Google hires at all. When you're contacted by a Google recruiter, no matter what that clueless recruiter might say, there is no specific job you're going to be interviewed for. If I'm looking for a job, I might interview once at each of half a dozen companies and get two or three offers. But I could easily go through half a dozen interview processes just with Google, never getting an offer. This discussion isn't about tech recruitment. It's about Google recruitment, which is uniquely broken. Their recruiters go after any warm body they can find to throw into the grinder, qualified or not, good candidate or not.
    - founder4fun 13y ago
      Cool to see you speak elegantly on the problem. The author who many here say he is a genius isn't much so when it comes to trying to convey his 1 percent problem. More so, with the tech elite current events being blogged about frequently. Had he phrased it as you did above then it wouldn't have inflamed readers and the overall tech elite issue going on. Us tech folks geniuses or not all have a lot to learn!
rpdillon 13y ago
How about companies they specifically asked not to contact them?

by jcdavis 13y ago

nknighthb 13y ago

I don't think you fully understood my comment. Contact by a Google recruiter does not constitute a job opportunity. It constitutes a waste of time on a massive scale. Replace them with automated spambots and the effect is the same.

jcdavis 13y ago
And I don't think you fully understood mine. Regardless of the effectiveness (or lack therefore) of their recruiters, Google is still has over a thousand open positions (look for yourself: https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/ https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/). None of my civil engineer friends are getting spammed by companies.
- nknighthb 13y ago
  No non-Google tech employers are spamming people over and over again either. You're trying to turn a Google discussion into an industry discussion, which is just silly. This is about a Google problem, not an industry problem.
kamaal 13y ago
They very fact that we are now treating being contacted by recruiters as 'spam' shows the attitude of how we treat opportunities. When being contacted for a >$100K an year job looks like annoyance you know we have lived too much in luxury and have no clue about the kind of problems ordinary people face.
- nknighthb 13y ago
  > They very fact that we are now treating being contacted by recruiters as 'spam' shows the attitude of how we treat opportunities. No, it shows that Google's recruitment practices are broken and annoying. They contact a huge number of people who have absolutely no chance of being hired. > When being contacted for a >$100K an year job Again, that isn't what's happening here. It's not even how Google hires at all. When you're contacted by a Google recruiter, no matter what that clueless recruiter might say, there is no specific job you're going to be interviewed for. If I'm looking for a job, I might interview once at each of half a dozen companies and get two or three offers. But I could easily go through half a dozen interview processes just with Google, never getting an offer. This discussion isn't about tech recruitment. It's about Google recruitment, which is uniquely broken. Their recruiters go after any warm body they can find to throw into the grinder, qualified or not, good candidate or not.
  - founder4fun 13y ago
    Cool to see you speak elegantly on the problem. The author who many here say he is a genius isn't much so when it comes to trying to convey his 1 percent problem. More so, with the tech elite current events being blogged about frequently. Had he phrased it as you did above then it wouldn't have inflamed readers and the overall tech elite issue going on. Us tech folks geniuses or not all have a lot to learn!

rpdillon 13y ago

How about companies they specifically asked not to contact them?