Re:How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview With Google
by taralx on Saturday October 19, 2013 @03:55PM
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To be fair, it was reasonable for her not to assume that whatever she found on a search would be up-to-date. Some people also like to tailor their resumes for the recipient.
Re:How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview With Google
by mgkimsal on Saturday October 19, 2013 @04:47PM
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to be fair, they had more than a week to go google me and see that the resume was the latest one. there are exactly 2 people with my name on the planet, and only one does much of anything on the internet (me).
"Do you have a more recent resume available? The one I have looks like was last updated in 2007" would be far more respectful - it would show you're looking at it, parsed it out, and are giving the other person a chance to polish things up if they want.
"HEY! I just found your resume! .... Send me your resume!"
"Waiter... I was just looking at your menu... things look really good. Could you please bring me your menu?"
It just sounds stupid.
"So, I found your resume... blah blah blah, you say you've done XYZ, blah blah blah, send me a copy of your resume."
WTF?
I said "um... you're google - don't you already have all my information?" a bit jokingly, and she laughed a bit. I then told her I wasn't at my computer, but if she Binged my name, my site would come up, and she could grab a resume from there. A few mumbles later, I got "OK, got it! I'll get back with you in a couple days with the answers to those questions!" I'd asked a couple questions about the job. That was early August - no followup. As unprofessional as any other hack recruiter imo. I guess I shouldn't have expected more, but I did.
tldr: I told Google to Bing me.