[Haskell-cafe] Google headhunters

[Jan Stolarek]

Same here, except that I got a reply to my reply :-)

Janek

Dnia środa, 4 grudnia 2013, Alp Mestanogullari napisał:
> I have been hit by a few since the beginning of the summer too. All of them
> were actual recruiters, I exchanged a few emails with some of them and had
> one on the phone. I think they are expanding a few teams in Europe and are
> just looking for "more new googlers than usual".
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Joe Quinn <headprogrammingczar at gmail.com>wrote:
> > I got the same thing, but based on my github account. The person who
> > contacted me has a consistent LinkedIn account, and his email passed SPF,
> > DKIM, and rPTR.
> >
> > On 12/3/2013 4:48 PM, Steffen Schuldenzucker wrote:
> >> On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 20:20:37 +0000 (UTC)
> >>
> >> AntC <anthony_clayden at clear.net.nz> wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>> Re work: curiously, I recently received an unsolicited email from
> >>> Google inviting me to 'have a conversation' [managementspeak yeuch!].
> >>> This was apparently based on my volume of postings on the forum. (I
> >>> suspect not on their quality ;-) I suggested that first they look at my
> >>> LinkedIn page, which would have roughly revealed my age -- already
> >>> greater
> >>> than yours will be when you 'come out of school'.
> >>>
> >>> Since then, nothing. Nada. Not even an acknowledgement. Rude, I call
> >>> it.
> >>>
> >>> I think you'll find ageism is still rife in the industry.
> >>
> >> Sorry for totally leaving the original topic here, but:
> >>
> >> Same for me: Got an e-mail from some "technical sourcer", replied (I'll
> >> actually be looking for a job soon), never got anything back. - Twice!
> >>
> >> I imagine they do a
> >>
> >>> forM_ (users haskell_cafe) $ \u ->
> >>>    when ("functional" `elem` words (linkedin_page u)) $ send (std_email
> >>> u) u
> >>
> >> , but with several agents which don't sync back their results.
> >>
> >> Doesn't seem to be age-related, though. (I'm 25)
> >>
> >> -- Steffen
> >
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