<story><title>Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development</title><url>https://medium.com/@WhatALongHandle/hi-its-google-corporate-development-d0c77fd69191</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MCRed</author><text>For a period I was heavily recruited by google.  Their recruiters tried a great many variations of attempts to trick me into interviewing for a job.  It seems weird that they would do this, because pretty soon, it would become obvious that it was a job interview and nothing more. Maybe there are a lot of talented engineers out there who are doing startups but aren&amp;#x27;t really committed to them and google manages via the fame of its name and wearing them down to convince them to give up and become employees.&lt;p&gt;I agree with this article&amp;#x27;s characterization of it as a scam, as they are pretending to be something they are not. This is manipulative and dishonest.  What I experienced was less heinous but had the same elements- misrepresentation, name dropping, attempts at emotional manipulation with tone and timing (the first call being so dead, then enthusiastic in the second- very &amp;quot;HR recruiter&amp;quot;, not corp dev.)&lt;p&gt;Worse, once I&amp;#x27;d eventually figure out what was going on, and put one of them off of me, a few weeks later another would show up, with another variation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text>&lt;i&gt;manages via the fame of its name [. . .] What I experienced was less heinous but had the same elements- misrepresentation, name dropping&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the original author should name everyone involved. I understand why he didn&amp;#x27;t, but people can only get away with this shit because they do it anonymously and no one talks to each other.&lt;p&gt;This is a much less extreme example, but years ago my former landlord threatened to kill me over a small claims court case (&lt;a href=&quot;http://jakeseliger.com/2010/08/28/dont-rent-an-apartment-from-navid-abedian-in-tucson-arizona-or-how-i-learned-to-be-wary-of-lawsuits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jakeseliger.com&amp;#x2F;2010&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;28&amp;#x2F;dont-rent-an-apartment-fro...&lt;/a&gt; if you&amp;#x27;re curious) and I wrote a post about what happened using his real name. Perhaps not surprisingly, since then I&amp;#x27;ve gotten two emails thanking me for the story—one from someone who&amp;#x27;d rented from him and had a bad experience and one from someone who avoided him.&lt;p&gt;In general it&amp;#x27;s a good idea to keep non-public conversations non-public, but when the people starting those conversations rely on them in order to do nasty stuff the principle should no longer apply.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development</title><url>https://medium.com/@WhatALongHandle/hi-its-google-corporate-development-d0c77fd69191</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MCRed</author><text>For a period I was heavily recruited by google.  Their recruiters tried a great many variations of attempts to trick me into interviewing for a job.  It seems weird that they would do this, because pretty soon, it would become obvious that it was a job interview and nothing more. Maybe there are a lot of talented engineers out there who are doing startups but aren&amp;#x27;t really committed to them and google manages via the fame of its name and wearing them down to convince them to give up and become employees.&lt;p&gt;I agree with this article&amp;#x27;s characterization of it as a scam, as they are pretending to be something they are not. This is manipulative and dishonest.  What I experienced was less heinous but had the same elements- misrepresentation, name dropping, attempts at emotional manipulation with tone and timing (the first call being so dead, then enthusiastic in the second- very &amp;quot;HR recruiter&amp;quot;, not corp dev.)&lt;p&gt;Worse, once I&amp;#x27;d eventually figure out what was going on, and put one of them off of me, a few weeks later another would show up, with another variation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ovulator</author><text>&amp;quot;What&amp;#x27;s wrong with this country? Can&amp;#x27;t a man walk down the street without being offered a job!?&amp;quot;</text></comment>