My wife interviewed then... She was an Admin Assistant for a CEO of a fairly large pharmaceutical company in the bay area. They asked her what she wanted to do and she responded she would and could perform quite well as an admin asst. They they said, "no, what do you want to do?" I think they were asking about pottery or saving whales or whatever. My wife didn't get it; nor the job. If only she could have said "Chase Rainbows". <i>sigh</i> (edit: words)
<i>Senior Operations Analyst -- Knowledge of scripting languages (Korn Shell, Perl and/or Python)</i><p>Korn shell surprises me! I thought that Google was always a Linux shop, and never used any other Unix. Was Korn shell ever popular on Linux, as opposed to bash?<p>I didn't use shell back in 1999, but I thought that bash was already popular back then. bash was apparently the first program that Linus Torvalds got running on Linux, back in the early 90's.<p>I saw a bit of early Perl at Google when I worked there, but it was mostly all Python. I never saw any Korn shell, although I guess bash is compatible with Korn shell, so maybe that's what they meant. Or it was written by a recruiter who copied from other common job postings at the time.
Interestingly, Requirements for Staffing Manager<p><pre><code> -BA/BS, MS or Ph.D. degree
-Intelligence to interview the brightest in the world
</code></pre>
Ph.D for Staffing Manager ? I guess that's not the case currently ?
> This means we base employment decisions exclusively on our current business needs and the given merit of a candidate. We encourage excellence at all levels in our organization, and are not influenced by race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, handicap, religion, or any other factor irrelevant to doing a great job.<p>Not anymore eh?
"We encourage excellence at all levels in our organization, and are not influenced by race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, handicap, religion, or any other factor irrelevant to doing a great job."<p>Somewhere somehow things took a different turn...<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=google+salary+discrimination" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=google+salary+discrimination</a><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=google+race+discrimination" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=google+race+discrimination</a><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=google+age+discrimination" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=google+age+discrimination</a><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=google+religion+discrimination" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=google+religion+discriminati...</a>