I submitted many resumes to google but met with no response. However I've interviewed six times now; each time, they found me by searching, uh, Google.
That is, their HR people found my website on the web. They didn't find my cover letter and resume in their own applicant tracking system.
That's not the case everywhere; I was hired at Apple in the mid-nineties by applying directly to the company, then sometime later my manager-to-be dug up my resume in their system.
But as far as I am able to tell, resumes submitted to google wind up in the bit bucket.
Google's initial phone screen always consist of just a few very basic computer science questions.
Quite commonly phone screens with other companies consist of "How many years of java experience do you have? How many years of linux experience do you have? How many years of apache experience do you have?"
Oddly, there is never any concern for what one accomplished - nor failed to accomplish - during those years of experience.
That is, their HR people found my website on the web. They didn't find my cover letter and resume in their own applicant tracking system.
That's not the case everywhere; I was hired at Apple in the mid-nineties by applying directly to the company, then sometime later my manager-to-be dug up my resume in their system.
But as far as I am able to tell, resumes submitted to google wind up in the bit bucket.
Google's initial phone screen always consist of just a few very basic computer science questions.
Quite commonly phone screens with other companies consist of "How many years of java experience do you have? How many years of linux experience do you have? How many years of apache experience do you have?"
Oddly, there is never any concern for what one accomplished - nor failed to accomplish - during those years of experience.