Ask HN: How to make Google notice me?
I got many other companies contact me, Twitter, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Linked-In, Netflix and even a couple of YC companies.
Google contacted me only once, but for a "10% technical, mostly customer support around ad services"
What do I need to do to get on their radar for a software engineer position? :)
What do I need to do in addition to this:
- got a 5 digit stackoverflow reputation, 3% overall in various topics
- got tons of twitter followers on technical topics
- got many github repos in many languages, several pull requests merged into popular projects.
- My degree is from a top 10 US university in computer science.
- I have many years of software experience
- My company SOLD Google one of the products I worked on (instead of developing in house)
- got a pretty high HN karma on technical related comments in my "real" username
- Great linked in profile, tons of recommendations and endorsements
- People tell me I'm a really good software engineer
- I am a really full stack T-shaped guy, knows a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
- I can write fluently in Java, Scala, C++, C, JavaScript, ES6, HTML5, CSS3
- Have a relatively popular blog, with a couple of technical posts getting to HN front page.
- I'm REALLY prepared to take that Google interview, but I just need them to call!
So to all of you who keep getting Google recruiter spam. What are you doing that I'm not? Do I need to start speaking at conferences? Write books? Start a PhD at Stanford? (an MSc from a top 10 CS program is not enough?)
Google? why not you like me? :)
Hope to get some insights, really appreciate your help.