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On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:12:39 +0000 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:43 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > > Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that |
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> > > hot anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I |
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> > > am completely unqualified - and not just because it meant getting |
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> > > out of bed before 9am :-O |
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> > Ha, ha! A very nice lady approached me too (admitted to having |
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> > harvested my address from the Gentoo M/L) but run away when I told |
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> > her that the only way I would share my CV details with Google would |
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> > be via a person to person meeting in their London offices and the |
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> > amount of income I would expect for a job there. |
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> My first reaction was, why would Google need a CV from me, surely they |
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> already know more about me than my mother does? Clearly they don't. |
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> At first I thought it was some type of scam, but several checks |
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> confirmed that it was a valid approach and I ended up speaking to |
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> them by phone, at a time that put them in California. |
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I've been contacted, and interviewed by phone, by Google TWICE. Both |
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times the person said straight up they read gentoo-users <shrug> |
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Turns out this list and local LUGs are by far the best way to find good |
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Linux talent. You can't hide where you are really at anymore after |
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posting here for a few months |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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