Google Steam Rolling Over LinkedIn
A few weeks ago I received and email from Google recruiting via LinkedIn. It went like this..
Your name came across my desk from a colleague of mine and I wanted to see if you might be interested in exploring opportunities with Google. Although I don’t presume to know what you may or may not be interested in doing, I do know that we have a number of opportunities in many different areas. If you are at all open to that type of conversation, please feel free to email or call me. Thank you for your time, and I hope to hear from you soon.
Don’t get me wrong, I love working for Sony, but Google is the place everyone wants to work at least once and I’m a bit of an opportunist. So I briefly called the lady and submitted my full resume. It sounded like I’d been head hunted over thousands of people who submit their resumes everyday to Google. And I quite honestly got a little excited. I’d never submitted my resume to Google in the past as I thought they received too many submissions and so it would be a waste of my time.
Then two weeks later I get this ..
I brought your resume/portfolio to the Flash committee for review and they were impressed with your background and accomplishments. We carefully reviewed your background and experience, and though we do not have a position that is a strong match with your qualifications at this time, we will be keeping your resume active in our system. We will continue to use our database to match your profile with new opportunities and will reach out to you if we find an opening for which you may be qualified. Thanks again for your interest in Google’s careers and unique culture We hope you will remain enthusiastic about our company. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at any time.
So if they didn’t have any ActionScript jobs open, why on earth did they even contact me? The bit that really tickles me is “Thanks again for your interest in Google’s careers and unique culture We hope you will remain enthusiastic about our company”. I almost wrote back telling them to f’ off but I managed to keep my cool for once.
After talking to a co-worker of mine at Sony, it seems that he got the exact same email via LinkedIn, though he didn’t pursue it. So for what ever reason, it seems that Google is fishing on LinkedIn and emailing anyone who has a software engineering background instead of filtering through their thousands of resume submissions which seems slightly odd to me seen as those are the people who really do want to work at Google.
Has anyone else been contact by Google this way and ended up with the same outcome?
I’ve been hearing similar stories lately. No one I know has actually gotten an in with google, though. Mostly it was just about making contact and getting more information. Maybe this is an indication of their next search-related endeavor?
Hi,
Yeah I got that “in-mail” but was not interested in leaving my current job. I think my current job security situation is OK and I am not interested in working for a company that may be on the verge of imploding.
I think their management team has gotten greedy and they are currently hyperventilating in efforts to save or replace their tenuous ad revenue stream and keep their gargantuan market cap afloat.
Exact same thing happened to me here in London… and I know loads of people with similar experiences. Few went through hours telephonic rounds, but I dont know of anyone securing the position…
I guess people consider giving it a try because its google… but the way its handled is not at all encouraging
The same thing happened to me after an 2 rounds of phone and 3 rounds of on-site. Did they ever find you “qualified” for any other position as they kept your resume active ?
Hi guys,
This happened to me also after 4 serious interviews (3 on-site)
“…The interview team was impressed with your background and accomplishments, and enjoyed getting to know you. We carefully reviewed your background and experience, and though we do not have a position that is a strong match with your qualifications at this time, we will be keeping your resume active in our system. We will continue to use our database to match your profile with new opportunities and will reach out to you if we find an opening for which you may be qualified.
Thanks again for your interest in Google’s careers and unique culture; we hope you will remain enthusiastic about our company. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at …”
At least they could put some informal feedback instead of ctrl-C & ctrl-V.
Laziness…? Unique attitude towards people?
Greetings from Poland