Re:How To Land a Job at Google
by alain94040 on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @11:29AM
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Good attempt. What I would add, if you are really into landing a job, is add a byline that says "I'm a recent graduate" (rather than say I'm jobless), and make sure the product name you are targeting is in the title. This way, you maximize your chance that someone who works on that products eventually finds your page, and your bio will automatically make them think: "hum, why doesn't he work for us?"
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Making sure a PM on the product reads your blog post isn't about optimising the title and having buzzwords like graduate. Think about being in the PM's shoes and where you would be looking for coverage and posts and so on on your product.
Hint: Writing a cool, insightful blog post, teardown or even nifty mashup (youtube instant?) that appeals to both the HN community as well as being hand crafted to subliminally read 'Please hire me, Google' would more than get you noticed.
The premise in the main post is very sound. If you want a product job at Google, put yourself in the shoes and start thinking product.
Another possibility:
Remember the guy that bought the AdWords targeted specifically to the hiring manager at Google?
That was a creative way to get noticed.
Maybe doing that + having the work to show for it (a landing page specifically for the manager! showing your work :) )