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Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real? by ncmncm on Friday March 13, 2020 @02:04AM (#22565120)
It happened to all of us. But be glad you are not there now.

None of those people contacting you, or phone screening, were Google employees. They were, or worked for, contractors. It didn't matter to them or to Google whether anybody they contacted was hired.

Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real? by tdy721 on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:47AM (#22565744)
Oh it mattered to the recruiters, right up until they realized he didn’t fit the template.