Would love to help them out, if I can get an interview...
have someone that works or has worked there vouch for you. I've had a google recruiter contact me on that alone.
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#12Tried hackers.txt.
Was disappointed.
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#13Human after all.
http://www.ycombinator.com/humans.txt
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#14what is the point of this?
Two reasons:
1. You'll come across it and apply for a job at Google.
2. You'll have a positive interaction with the Google brand.
A big part of this: it's something people want to share. Without that element, it would only ever be seen by a few dozen people.
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#15what is the point of this?
You usually put a robots.txt file for search engines. A search engine putting a humans.txt is funny.
I hope this becomes a thing though -- a text file you can reliably find that gives you the barebones explanation of what the sites is for ... though I guess /about already functions that way.
It's two weeks late though, would have been a great "April Fools but we're serious" thing.
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#17the nest one has always been great http://www.nest.com/humans.txt
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#18http, no auto redirect to https? On chrome. I thought Google preloads key pins which force https loading, but apparently the www subdomain isn't included [0]. Are there legacy reasons why?
[0] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/n...
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#19Tried hackers.txt. Was disappointed.
Try twtxt.txt
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#20Would love to help them out, if I can get an interview...
The best meritocratic way (i.e. not dependent on your CV too much) to get invited to an interview with Google is to be top 1000 in Google Code Jam.
Study algorithms a lot, practice on CodeForces and TopCoder. If you work hard on it, in some year you will be on top of Google Code Jam.
Recommendations is good to have but it won't help you to be successful on the interview.
Practice algorithms a lot, ... I mean literally A LOT.
P.S. I had recommendations from Google employees. I screw up Google interview. Now, I'm preparing with algorithms and participate on coding contests including Google Code Jam (right now).