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[violentbloom]

I think I've missed google's zeal to hire workers. Is that where they are really fussy and don't hire good people?

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[jwz]

I don't remember if you were at the party yet when I mentioned that a certain Google employee we know was running my stock countdown script all the time, and like half a dozen people went, "oh yeah me too!"

[violentbloom]

I missed that. I guess I'm also missing who the mutual friend at google is, though I was thinking of someone that recently interviewed there that we know that was at the party.

is that script around somewhere?

[cyeh]

I might have a need to run it soon. Not for google or options per se, more for "I get the fuck out of here in exactly n days."

Re: is that script around somewhere?

[violentbloom]

I assume not for the options...you didn't take/want that job anyway right?

[allartburns]

I know a number of people who went to Google from TiVo and other shops. They are all very smart, some are very good, and some are sort of a zero-sum at the end of the day.

It might still be the case that every single new hire has to be signed off on by exec staff or some subset of exec staff. I know people who had an interview, then heard nothing for months, then got an offer long after taking a job at Y!.

If we were still in the bay area and I were going to leave my current gig, I'd go straight to Y! and not even consider Google. All the good people I liked working with went there, the good people who were sometimes difficult all went to Google.

[rapier1]

Dunno a friend of mine form CMU went there in 2000. He's in Japan now working on some research stuff. He was pretty damn smart and never talked about the money. However, thats all I know about google. I'd kind of like to keep it that way. They always seemed a bit like the Ben & Jerry's of the tech industry.