Cerf Launches UK Recruiting Tour 38
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that networking pioneer Vint Cerf is planning to tour the UK in an attempt to recruit coders for Google. From the article: 'Google admitted that it was having difficulties recruiting developers and would be targeting students and engineers.'"
Re:Come recruit me!! (Score:2)
insights long in coming (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, they finally had to acknowledge that the previous recruiting strategy of targeting florists and mime-artists just wasn't panning out, code quality-wise.
light years ahead of the US? (Score:1)
What, like BBC radio?
Re:light years ahead of the US? (Score:1)
Or maybe they don't know in Google that light years measure distance, and years measure time.
Re:light years ahead of the US? (Score:1, Funny)
Google guy: Deal!
(may not have actually happend)
You might just have made Cerf $50
Re:light years ahead of the US? (Score:2, Funny)
Or am I just an instrument in the hands of smarter and richer people?
Re:light years ahead of the US? (Score:4, Insightful)
Basically what I'm trying to say is, you tried to be smart but you failed.
Wrong units: the British View (Score:2)
Linux is fortnights behind Windows...
Linux is yonks behind Windows...
Linux is firkins behind Windows
Furlongs per fortnight
Re:Wrong units: the British View (Score:2)
Re:Wrong units: the British View (Score:2)
Re:Wrong units: the British View (Score:2)
Here's the first prosecution [guardian.co.uk] who became a cause célbre, known as The Metric Martyr [sageweb.co.uk]
Ironically, he's even dead now !
There is much debate [aol.com] over the actual legality of the act.
The implications are astounding (Score:5, Funny)
-Charlie
(Apologies, could not resist. Must go make highbrow joke to a random person in the street as pennance.)
Re:The implications are astounding (Score:2)
Cerfing USA!
They need to speed up their recruitment process (Score:4, Interesting)
I understand they only want to hire good people but good people will probably get a stack of written job offers before Google gets anywhere near making a decision.
Re:They need to speed up their recruitment process (Score:2, Interesting)
I'd rather risk losing someone good than be lumped with someone weak who got through a light the recruitment process.
I don't know what the ratio to hire-nohire is, but some engineers do a hundred 45 min interviews a year, on top of their normal jobs. So it's not just difficult on the applicants; but there is a really good reason for it.
Some people say "So, just hire bad people and fire them later". Google isn't like a normal company. Stuff is done so differently that you can't afford
Re:They need to speed up their recruitment process (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:They need to speed up their recruitment process (Score:1)
If you are a recent college graduate with a degree computer science and you live 45 miles out of Little Rock and are unwilling to move, either write some chicken farm management software and sell it yourself, or expect long drives to infrequent job interviews. Of course, If you live in Cupertino and aren't any good, you probably won't recruiters from Google breathing down
I saw them yesterday... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I saw them yesterday... (Score:2)
Re:I saw them yesterday... (Score:2)
Re:I saw them yesterday... (Score:1)
Re:I saw them yesterday... (Score:1)
Quotes:
"The industry simply has to
"These industries simply have to learn to adopt"
The question was about, basically, P2P piracy, but Cerf moved into talking about phone companies too as an example of another business that must change (he mentioned the ISPs wanting to charge content providers, and is strongly against the idea, of course. As am I).
Re:I saw them yesterday... (Score:1)
Surely if you are considering going to work for a company you might like to know how they respond to questions regarding how they square their ethical behaviour with their very public mission statement.
Needed? (Score:1)
Re:Needed? (Score:1, Insightful)
If you work at IBM the odds are you're writing code which will still be in use in 10 years' time. At google, I don't think that's the plan.
Neither option is necessarily better than the other, but I prefer to work on long-term code rather than short-term code. YMMV.
Vint Cert Speaking Monday Evening (Score:4, Informative)
Interesting event - nothing that I hadn't heard in interview or read on the web but fun to see live.
If a new he was recruiting I would have taken my CV along!
Re:Vint Cert Speaking Monday Evening (Score:1, Funny)
If speling and grammer is a prerequisite for working at Google, you haven't missed out on anything.
Aggressive recruiting (Score:3, Interesting)
I've just been to both linux.conf.au [linux.conf.au] and FOSDEM [fosdem.org] and in both cases, Google has been recruiting really aggressively. By that, I mean someone you've never met just popping in with "Hello, have you considered working for Google?".
Re:Aggressive recruiting (Score:2)
Event tonight (Score:1)
targets clear, but what then ? (Score:2)
As much as I appreciate them looking at students and engineers, the obvious question that comes up in my head is - and make them do what ? . Whenever I look at what Google India's doing, there is no clarity in terms of what work they are doing, they will be doing or they will make me do. Either it is all hush-hush or they have no idea what to do with all the developers they already have.
How many USians would jump for it? (Score:2)
Re:How many USians would jump for it? (Score:1)
Re:How many USians would jump for it? (Score:2)
[1] Anywhere that stopped being a colony without a war.
Re:How many USians would jump for it? (Score:1)