Hi Ceph,

It looks like Google has a github bot harvesting mails from repositories and 
fishing for job applicants. I guess every committer got the exact same message 
addressed to the mail(s) that show in the commits. There is nothing to be done 
about it but it is worth mentioning, in public, that it is bad practice to try 
to disguise a mail as if it was written by someone who cares. I'm a somewhat 
ashamed to say that I was flattered to receive the mail, because I have a high 
opinion of Google technical skills and recruitment process. When I realized a 
bot was the source, I felt stupid. I'm not sure that's a profitable recruiting 
technique.

Cheers

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Hi XXX,

How are you today? :-)

I'm Darren and I am part of the Google Engineering Recruitment team. I came 
across your profile previously through your commitment to Ceph and your 
personal site. Some of your other projects and experience are really 
interesting! 

Your experience of development with open source file systems looks excellent 
and you clearly have a passion for your open-source work which is awesome! 

Can I ask what languages do you code with usually?

I have a couple of roles in particular that I am hiring for and I was hoping 
you might be interested in speaking about some of these, would you be? 

Let me know and I would be happy to schedule a friendly call at a time that is 
convenient for you.

Many Thanks,

-- 
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.

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