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Re:Announcing Google Research, Europe by tomp on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:20AM (#11916718)
Clearly it's still beneficial for some people.
Re:Announcing Google Research, Europe by tobltobs on Thursday June 16, 2016 @12:30PM (#11917170)
He doesn't supply any informations you couldn't lookup in 10 seconds on wikipedia. He also fading out any non positive details in his chorus of praise. I don't what his motivations are, but I guess he collects leads for some dubious job agencies.
Re:Announcing Google Research, Europe by s3nnyy on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:13PM (#11917449)
I am the tech-recruiting agency and I only recommend jobs at companies I would work for myself (I am a software engineer with a master in CS from one of the top-3 schools in Europe).

Sorry that I appear spammy, my motivation is truly to add value to HN and provide actionable information to those who are interested. I will try to be more modest in the future.

Re:Announcing Google Research, Europe by tobltobs on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:43PM (#11917669)
> I am the tech-recruiting agency

Your are not only spamming. Neither your touted blog entry nor your fastmail email address do give any hints that you earn provisions for your "help", quite the contrary they sound like you would be a ordinary developer working for one client.

And sorry, you don't get a _good_ job in Switzerland via a german headhunter in his twenties.

> master in CS from one of the top-3 schools in Europe

That would be the Technical University of Munich or Karlsruhe, I guess. It is a bit of a stretch to call this "one of the top-3 schools in Europe". I guess this BS is from the marketing page of the university itself.

Re:Announcing Google Research, Europe by s3nnyy on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:02PM (#11917782)
I am a software engineer and I do recruiting in my free time.

I refer people not only to companies that pay me but also to companies that do not pay me, if I see that there is a fit.

Re:Announcing Google Research, Europe by chrisper on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:31PM (#11917584)
It's not. He will stop responding to messages if it's clear to him that you can't make him any money. I contacted him once and he responded 3 months later and then stopped responding when it became clear I am not ready to move to Zurich just yet.
Re:Announcing Google Research, Europe by s3nnyy on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:00PM (#11917763)
If this happened, I am sorry for this. I am not doing this full-time and I am sure that people fall through the cracks.

I refer people not only to companies that pay me but also to companies in Zurich that do not pay me, if I see that there is a great fit.

In Switzerland I learned to think longterm: If the candidate is happy, he will come back to me in 2-3 years.

Again, I am very sorry that I forgot you.