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Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by mindcrime »

MindTwister wrote: post #2

Does anyone have similar experiences with Google?

My only experience with Google went like this:

1. Google recruiter emails me, says my name was recommended to her by somebody inside Google. I'm still not sure who the "somebody" was as I don't have any close friends inside Google and nobody mentioned anything to me. I suspect it may have been a HN'er actually, somebody who doesn't know me IRL, but liked something he/she saw in my posts here or some of my open source work.

2. I politely declined to pursue anything, explaining that I am knee deep in a startup of my own, and that my ambition is to run my own company, not work for anybody else - even Google.

3. Recruiter replied, expressed that they understood, and asked if they could contact me again in the future to see where things stood. I said "sure".

4. About a year later a different Google recruiter pinged me, mentioned the earlier dialogue, and asked me if my situation had changed. I answered that it had not. They replied and said "thanks for the update".

5. I haven't heard anything from them since.

All in all, everybody was polite and cordial, but then again, we never got into any detailed discussions because I just wasn't interested. YMMV. shrug

Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by [deleted] »

abalone wrote: post #91
MCRed wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was no $2M. They never made a $2M offer. This wasn't even the people in Google that do acquisitions. This was a hiring manager and a HR recruiter tag teaming the guy and pretending like it was about acquisition in order to get him to take their call at a time when he was overloaded with interest from other parties.

$2M was mentioned as the max offer for these types of deals (read: acquihire). They didn't have to get to the point of making an offer; he rejected that maximum. And $2M is definitely an acquisition.

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Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by spaulo12 »

ahelwer wrote: post #107
cromwellian wrote: post #74

I think there's an either-or fallacy here, it could have been an attempt at an acqui-hire, but when the people talking to him tried to push it through, other people reviewed the situation and decided just to offer a generous employment package. Consider, a single-engineer company with an interesting app and talented engineer, just how much do you expect to be acquired for? Recognize that a $1M-2M offer is about what…

All right I'll bite. How, exactly, does an engineer make $250-500k a year at Google as an engineer? What examples are there of this happening?

Salary + bonus + RSUs. It all depends on your grants, perf, etc.

Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by thrownaway2424 »

ahelwer wrote: post #107
cromwellian wrote: post #74

I think there's an either-or fallacy here, it could have been an attempt at an acqui-hire, but when the people talking to him tried to push it through, other people reviewed the situation and decided just to offer a generous employment package. Consider, a single-engineer company with an interesting app and talented engineer, just how much do you expect to be acquired for? Recognize that a $1M-2M offer is about what…

All right I'll bite. How, exactly, does an engineer make $250-500k a year at Google as an engineer? What examples are there of this happening?

Write code, write tests, write docs. Ship product.

Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by driverdan »

ForHackernews wrote: post #48
tzz wrote: post #34

Does Google ever access your Google Analytics or other Google tools you are using to get more insight info about your website or app? Would they ever do such thing?

I wonder if they read your personal Gmail account to see if you're considering other offers? Or if you've corresponded with other people about their proposal?

They would be facing hefty lawsuits if they did that.

Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by kohanz »

declan wrote: post #104
cromwellian wrote: post #74

I think there's an either-or fallacy here, it could have been an attempt at an acqui-hire, but when the people talking to him tried to push it through, other people reviewed the situation and decided just to offer a generous employment package. Consider, a single-engineer company with an interesting app and talented engineer, just how much do you expect to be acquired for? Recognize that a $1M-2M offer is about what…

Well put. Also as suggested nearby, the author of the linked article, Max Christian, fumbled the exchange and instead of a million-dollar exit ended up with... what? Instead of the claim of "I can easily get to twice £X million" -- in revenue? profit? valuation? -- it looks like the author's RoomScan app is near-moribund. RoomScan Pro, which sells for $4.99, hasn't been updated in over half a year and is listed as "o…

Moving across the ocean with a wife and young child to work for a company under golden handcuffs hardly sounds like an appealing "exit". The OP already mentioned he is not desperate for $ after his first successful startup.

Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by ogler »

I would recommend you to seek for some adequate specialist in the fields of internet addiction, desocialization with paranoid kind of psychosis. Please remember these terms and seek a professional therapist, to resolve these issues. It's obvious by your writings, that you're not a bad guy, capable of aggressiveness and bad feelings towards the Google's "requiters, as you see them... So, you deserve to get it all back, as it is right and accurate in your mind! It happens often to every of us, whom intelect and all the imagination, that a good developer has by default, are so dedicated to this more and more sofisticated and always, like it feels, it's immense, with all the billions interactors giving The Internet their energy and constructive or distructive powers :) I think the result is brilliant, but some of us, like a sacrifice to the whole process, are loosing sometimes our clear vision on the human aspect of everything... I wish you good luck, brother, make that step - to get a professional opinion, if you do not believe me...

Best regards! Miro Avramoff apexengine@gmail.com Call me an email, you are welcome! (:

Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by ahelwer »

spaulo12 wrote: post #113
ahelwer wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All right I'll bite. How, exactly, does an engineer make $250-500k a year at Google as an engineer? What examples are there of this happening?

Salary + bonus + RSUs. It all depends on your grants, perf, etc.

That's pretty broad. What, $150k base for a good engineer then $50k cash bonus and $50k stock? That gets us to the lower end, and it's already way above the upper end of what I've heard. Are we talking about your average engineer in mid-career, or is this 10x 100x rockstar 0.1% could-totally-happen-to-you-though BS?

Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by gravedave »

idealform01 wrote: post #99

It would be great to have a site that compiled recruiting scams that companies do. I have been taken by a couple and really would love to have a site that said, "if you are thinking about working for CompanyX, be sure to look out for the following tactics: Z,Y,Z"

What about http://www.glassdoor.com/ ? It features company reviews that you can read.

Re: Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development

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Post by Guillaume86 »

voodoomagicman wrote: post #67
potatolicious wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The accelerometer and gyroscope. The double integral of acceleration is displacement. On iPhones/iOS it's extremely accurate to the point where you can integrate displacement from it and not be far off from the real result - over short timespans/distances anyways. One of the lesser-appreciated qualities of Apple hardware (more accurately, hardware and drivers) is the quality and accuracy of their sensors.

I have tried this as well - it was definitely not as simple as taking the double integral. In my experience moving and the stopping the phone would always end up with the two accelerations not exactly canceling out so that the calculated position would drift away from the true position at a constant rate. Even applying a floor to velocity to eliminate the drift, the distances calculated for simple linear motions were…

Maybe add beeps and use them like a sonar to refine distance measurement?
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