Hey John, If it makes you feel any better about the legitimacy of the offer, a friend of mine is a package maintainer for gentoo and google recruited him through that.
Good luck getting your internship, Noah On 8/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the way off topic post, but it's summer, and it's > > slow, and I recently got an email > > from someone at google.com letting me know that they > > were hiring. As far as I can tell, the email is legit. They're > > not even asking for my name, SSN, bank account numbers, etc. > > I assume that since many of you, unlike me, really are > > programmers, or software engineers as google seems to > > like to call them, you have gotten these emails before too. > > What I'm curious about is why I got the email. The sender > > said that she had seen some of my online posts. Is it just > > because I post to 9fans and have posted to various FreeBSD > > mailing lists? Does google just use its own search capabilities > > and send out periodic posts to people in certain groups? What > > sort of search criteria do you think they use? > > > > Just wondering, thanks. > > > > Greg > > As an engineering student who will need another job this winter, > I looked upon this as something worth checking out. I did a bit of > googling, found that the number given was indeed in Mountainview, > CA and that the emails seem to be coming from inside Google. > I figured there was no harm trying, so I replied. I got an email the next > day saying that they found 9fans posts and made the connection > to Rob Pike. It *sounds* legitimate, so I'm going to continue emailing > and try to set up a phone conversation. If anyone knows something > I don't, please share it. > > > John "needs a winter internship" Floren > >
