What's the best course of action in this case? Surely, it isn't to ignore the email.
According to Paul Graham, a polite but short refusal: http://paulgraham.com/corpdev.html . Well, unless you know you're ready to sell.
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#12Google recruiters are lying weasels? SAY IT AIN'T SO!
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#14I don't understand the problem. Was he expecting a $100m acquisition and was upset it was only $2m? Feels like an overly aggressive reaction to something most people would only dream of.
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#15Fits in nicely with Paul Graham's story not to talk to corp dev at all. Still, I find myself hoping that someone did turn up on April 9.
Nope, that really was the end of the story.
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#16I don't understand the problem. Was he expecting a $100m acquisition and was upset it was only $2m? Feels like an overly aggressive reaction to something most people would only dream of.
Did you miss the part about misrepresenting who was who and the purpose of their contact?
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#17I don't understand the problem. Was he expecting a $100m acquisition and was upset it was only $2m? Feels like an overly aggressive reaction to something most people would only dream of.
Honesty seems like it would be a good start
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#18In addition to that their corporate culture became too intense and naturally it resulted in some staff becoming deluded. Many people want to work for Google, but not everyone. Maybe not even the majority of engineers.
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#19I don't understand the problem. Was he expecting a $100m acquisition and was upset it was only $2m? Feels like an overly aggressive reaction to something most people would only dream of.
Did you miss the part about misrepresenting who was who and the purpose of their contact?
I read it as if he was speculating and drew conclusions based on that. I also fail to see how they masked the purpose. Again, what was he expecting exactly?
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#20The story ends with an awful lot of assumptions.