Google Recruitment Potshots
I have to say I’m getting a little sick of Google recruitment spam. Does anyone else get pestered every few months by the behemoth? I suppose I should blame “Bob”:http://www.crazybob.org or someone for trying to get a referral bonus.
Case in point, this morning in my inbox:
Hi Mike,
My name is Cam Bowman and I am a Recruiter for the Google.com Engineering team. I wanted to follow up on an email I sent to you in November. You have a very impressive resume and we are looking for people with experience such as yours. Let me know if you would like to discuss the opportunities with our team.
Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.
Cam
Now this is fascating as a) I’ve never sent a resume to Google, b) I haven’t _written_ a resume for myself in almost 8 years, and c) any recruiter worth their salt would be able to see I’m probably not worth their time.
I guess going from 10k people to 20k people in one year (I think that was their stated goal?) requires a lot of spam.
I decided to let Mr Bowman down gently in my reply and explain the situation.
Then I got cheeky, and decided to let him down publicly on my blog. Google’s spider will find it I’m sure.
Sorry Cam – I’m a little busy at the moment!
Hi Mike,
just to let you know
Cam’s a woman
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I’m really getting depressed now – Google recruiters haven’t spammed me at all.
How come you (and jeaves, and …) are all so important to get multiple spams and I’m not even worth a single one.
Oh, man, this was your $100M offer… you know Google hires by buying the whole business
Doesn’t this person know that Cam (or Cameron) is a “reserved name” in this industry?
C’mon, Mike. You know you want to work for us.
So much wasted verbage on a spammer. You could have just sent him a one-liner reply:
http://www.atlassian.com/about/jobs.jsp
Isn’t google sydney someone near you guys? You could do a prank on them and go put a sign up on their campus: “Atlassian is Hiring” or or “Atlassian: Google 2.0″ or something similar.
Worth a few laughs at least.
Perhaps you no longer need an actual resume and they can simply ‘infer’ one from your searches
I’m sure your Google searches DO add up to “a very impressive resume”.
They contacted me via my LinkedIn account which is the first and only time anyone has done that.
“Isn’t google sydney someone near you guys?” If Google had a balcony, Atlassian’s new digs would be would be stone’s throw away
Mike, I have had plenty of these too – including a phone call. I also suggest we pull a prank on their Sydney HQ