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Google, please hire me

4 pointsby moonlighterover 10 years ago

2 comments

ChuckMcMover 10 years ago
FWIW this is a good example of how not to get hired by Google (at least in the technical space). The essence of his message was &quot;I want to work for you, I work really hard.&quot; which, when you think about it, few people work at Google who don&#x27;t already want to work there, and well if you don&#x27;t work hard you don&#x27;t stay. So the two pieces of information this guy tries to share with Google are not actionable or useful to someone evaluating them.<p>If you really want to work for Google, you need to have a good reason <i>why</i> you want to work for Google.<p>The two types of folks I saw who regularly made it through the process into a hire were people who were pursuing some goal and doing so at Google would be good for Google, and people who were doing some thing Google thought would be useful for them to be doing at Google so they went out and recruited them. I don&#x27;t recall a single person whose only goal was to &quot;work at Google&quot; actually got through the process.
minimaxirover 10 years ago
This was made in 2011. <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/07/google-fails-to-hire-the-googlepleasehire-me-guy/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;google-fails-to-hire-the-go...</a><p>Spoiler alert: He was not hired by Google.