Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] from Brad Fuellenbach Google.com engineering candidate

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 1/3/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Scott Hussey wrote:
>
> > I just read a NY Times article saying that Google is having a heck of
> > a time finding enough employees to keep up with their growth. However,
> > I find it hard to imagine how someone equates university math
> > professor to the job openings in the message. Sys Admin?
>
> The guy almost certainly didn't know that Stephen is a math prof.  He
> probably found one of Stephen's computing projects (e.g., screen saver, or
> distributed computing) and wrote to him because of those things.

Once upon a time in the late 90s, I was essentially offered a $75K per
year job in Silicon Valley via email from a recruiter who admitted he
only contacted me because I had previously posted answers on the
comp.lang.perl newsgroup.

Now, the really troubling thing is that it's not clear that was the
worst recruitment strategy available. Neither is cold-calling Stephen
Montgomery-Smith, for that matter; you should just be doing it for the
right reason.

jking

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