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I have been contacted by several (!) recruiters of Google after answering some very specific questions about a distributed consensus protocol (Paxos). I can ima
by stingraycharles 12y ago
I have been contacted by several (!) recruiters of Google after answering some very specific questions about a distributed consensus protocol (Paxos). I can imagine they rather search for specific topics / keywords than reputation, using the logic "if he can get the accepted answer on these topics, he might be worth checking out".
- MichaelCrawford 12y agoI myself once scored a firewire consulting contract as a direct result of answering question's on Apple's firewire developer list. However that contract came several years after I answered the question. To the extent I do stuff like post to stackoverflow, I don't expect it to pay off soon.