Peter's Blog

I can't resist posting this. The mail headers check out and I don't think it is a wind-up. There are no non-disclosure terms so here it goes:

Hi Peter-

My name is {snip}; I'm a talent scout for the engineering team here at Google. I came across some of your work and your writing on the Web and was impressed with your development experience - particularly your background in Linux and your work in Python.

I actually recruit for the Google.com engineering team here, which is the group of engineers that's essentially the mission control of Google. They're responsible for the design and development of the infrastructure for all our web applications and internal services. You'd be able to tackle some of the most unique scalability problems in the world and work on the newest products we have. It's a mission-critical role that involves a lot of coding and requires a high degree of creativity and troubleshooting expertise, so we're looking for Unix experts and great coders with broad skill sets (like yourself)! We have several positions within the Google.com department that I feel would be a good match for your skills and qualifications. The positions are currently available in: Mountain View, CA Santa Monica, CA New York, NY Kirkland/Seattle, WA Dublin, Ireland Zurich, Switzerland Sydney, Australia

I'm not asking you to quit what you're doing now - just seeing if you might be interested in exploring opportunities with Google. If you're at all interested in the department or in Google in general, I'd love to speak with you about the opportunities we have here - and of course, if any of your talented colleagues would be interested, feel free to forward my name and contact information to them as well.

You also may have noticed that a couple of weeks ago we were named the #1 company to work for by Fortune Magazine: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2007/snapshots/1.html

Thanks for your time, and I hope to hear from you soon!

Best regards,

-{snip}

Top Ten Reasons to Work at Google: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/reasons.html

What It's Like to Be an Engineer at Google: http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=about.html

I would LOVE to work for google but even I think I lack credibility.