Personally for google I just sent in my resume in plain text and I got an interview. The interview was overly difficult for the position I applied for. However, I was interviewed by a system administrator in the department where I would have ended up working.
Anyway to answer your question, during my extended job search I found you tend to get interviews at companies where your experience directly matches their needs. In my case I have a lot of experience with clusters so I interviewed at many places that wanted someone for cluster development or administration. So in the case of google I would recommending listing all your scripting qualifications in extreme detail, but just be prepaired to handle the questions. Afterall I told the interviewer my best scripting langauge was bash and he made me write a fairly complex script over the phone. Not in a sudo langauge or algorithm form, but exactly. So the conversation went something like this: Me: "if, square bracket, dash f, slash etc slash passwd, close square bracket" Interviewer: "Was that a lower case or capital if? So do you need some type of special character to delimit the end of the if statement?" ... Of course that went on for what turned out to be a 20 line shell script. On 5/1/05, Charles Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:53:56AM -0700, Mark C. Ballew wrote: > > Out of the area employers looking for open source people should ask and > > I'll re-post if I personally think they are useful. I got this email > > from Tod at google yesterday (as well as cc'd from Tim). I hope this is > > useful to someone. > > So I've spent pretty much my entire weekend tuning my resume over and > over and trying to think of the best ways to express my qualifications > for this position. Obviously as Ben said this is a needle i the haystack > type of problem. How do I distinguish myself. On the website they > request that you would send ASCII text or HTML format of the resume to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] which of course parses the subject line and so on and so > forth. Well I will most likely do this but I've also got a nice looking > PDF version which I spent several days developing in Scribus that I hate > to waste. I was thinking of sending it to Tod directly or perhaps > fax/snail mailing it as if I'm not picked for this exact position I seem > well qualified for several of the others. > > How does everyone else go about getting the job they desire? In the past > I've either gone through a recruiter or had an inside contact. Are > people with my quals a dime a dozen or do I have a decent chance at > fitting in at Google? > > Ryan you said that you had interviewed with Google in the past. What was > your experience like? I've been doing consulting security work for the > last 6 months but I'd like to get back under a larger entity that has > health-care and benefits. It seems like Google will be around for some > time. > > Anyways sorry for the off-topic rant... flames, comments, suggestions, > and especially cheerleading are well received at my end of the wire! I > think I'm going to try the brute force method. E-mail the ASCII resume > to the main address with a few of the job titles that match very > tightly. E-mail the PDFs to Tod since I've spent so much time on them. > And then call him at his office and get his Fax # and send some that way > as well... at this point I'm willing to try just about anything. The > idea of getting a look under the hood of their operation excites me. > > Regards, > Charlie > > P.S. There are two files: > http://penguinppc.org/~core/{resume,cover_letter}.pdf > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCda79GAuLrxOyeJMRAsZuAJ0ZIriRuObRcFHgELd55hUiygNprwCglzyO > rNfTW4csLD7s7JNUlTw1qGA= > =SLjx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > -- --Jason Baurick _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
