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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by omegote on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:28PM (#9696058)
He actually didn't apply, it was Google who contacted him in the first place.
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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by pound on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:18PM (#9697250)
Google contacts plenty of people. Reaching out to yet another engineer (not even talking about this particular case) doesn't mean they really want someone particular. They just going through the pool of potential matches. Person who initiated contact may not even know what exactly Homebrew is.
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