6/23    What's a good strategy of landing an interview with Google?
        \_ Graduate from Stanford with a PhD in CS
        \_ My friend got an interview(and a job) with them through Taos few
           months ago.
        \_ Ask aaron@csua to recommend you.
        \_ They highly value a Berkeley CS degree too.  It helps if you
           have worked in other search companies.
        \_ tried many times and didn't get anywhere :o
        \_ ACM programming contest participation helps.
        \_ They got my resume from the net, called me, we did phone screen,
           I talked to idiot child for 20 minutes, told their HR thanks but
           no thanks if that was one of their superstars.  They're also very
           cultish.  Best of luck getting their attention when they're getting
           1000+ resumes a day.  Anyway, I'm not sure why you'd want to work
           there anyway.  Their long term prospects are minimal in a business
           sense and there won't ever be an IPO.
           \_ yeah NO ONE uses google.
              \_ hey genius, this isn't 1998.  You're not paying google a penny
                 for your thousands of free searches.  There isn't even a lame
                 ad banner there.  The http://www.google.com page is a loss leader.
                 Their business model is not making nearly as much money as
                 their competitors.  You're an idiot.
                 \_ Are you being deliberately obtuse, or can't you see the
                    ads presented on the results page?
                    \_ You think they can support their gigantic cluster and
                       bandwidth on those?  You and me, we're going into
                       business together if you can sell ads like that at
                       prices high enough to run a business.
                       \_ How do you think google makes money? Do you think
                          they are lying when they say that they are profitable?
                          Targeted searches are worth a lot more than you think.
                          \_ Do I think they're lying?  Until they go public
                             and I review their financials I can't know and
                             even then they still might be.
        \_ To summarize google: it will be the next inktomi!  Remember how
           hot it was?  Ask the former inktomi people here.  Enjoy the spot
           light while it lasts.  Because it won't.  Yahoo, on the other hand,
           will always be there.
           \_ google is most definitely not the next inktomi.  They have
              a decent product that's well packaged, well known (The verb, to
              google), has been able to capitalize on marketing revenue without
              pissing off a picky user base, and continues to generate interest
              with new angles.  Google made the web usable.  It has critical
              mass.  To discount it is folly.
              \_ Nice PR, no money in being google.
           \_ inktomi was never hot, except in the minds of Berkeley geeks.
              \_ Concur. I hadn't evenheard of inktomi until I got here, much
                 less used it. I've been using google every day for geek stuff,
                 academic research, professional research and just plain look
                 ups. I've tried all the other engines I've been told about and
                 nothing else comes close.
                 \_ And how much *money* have you paid google for all that
                    research and web searching?  --not 1998
                    \_ I haven't paid any money to a lot of websites, but they
                       seem to be thriving
                       \_ Seemed that way in 98 too.
                    \_ Hello, do you have ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX/WB or any
                       proramming over the air anything for watching?
                       Not getting any money from you doesn't mean the
                       company won't be successful. - not a google employee
                       \_ Duh, maybe you didn't notice that almost 1/4th of
                          air time is commercials?  Google has a big name, but
                          they're a tiny company next to their quieter, bigger
                          and more money making rivals.  Hey, whatever, go to
                          google for a job, that just makes it one less person
                          I need to compete with for jobs at real companies.