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I mentioned before that Google offered me a job.
Well, I am not so sure about that. In fact I think they were spamming.

See, Google has no problem harvesting email addy’s of potentially interesting programmers. They sent me this:

This screams “SPAM!”, for a plethora of reasons.
It’s obviously a pastejob, with lost whitespace and a premature newline. A typo to make it look like a casual email. And zero details, totally generic. Could have been sent to any coder.
So I told them that I thought it was SPAM, but that since I wasn’t 100% sure, I just wanted to say I wasn’t interested.

As one of my coding colleagues put it: “I hope you told them to shove a fork up their ass?”.

This came back (I don’t include the rest, which was pretty uninteresting, more generic stuff about whom I should contact at Google for further “potential opportunities”).

So now we know for sure, Google is indeed spamming for coders.
Note the premature newline, just like the initial message.
So they get a lot of complaints about SPAM, and they have a canned response to that as well, LOL.