Secret not mentioned: Aggressively filter applicants, so only the “best matches” even get an interview. I’ve sent 150 applications to Google in the last 4 months, and not a single response.
They may have blacklisted your name because you're spamming them with applications. "I've left her 15 messages and haven't gotten a single response," sounds just about as crazy...
The problem with that comparison is that responding to job postings at Google is really fast. Once you enter your data in their system, it’s just click, tab-tab-tab, enter. It’s not like I’m spending hours every day begging for Google to give me a job.
And I’d be really disappointed if all the submissions just went into the same person’s inbox. Somebody at Google should speak up if that’s the case. The way I expect Google to run, each submission just goes to that division’s hiring staff, and Google has a lot of divisions.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I’m not just blindly spamming Google. For every one of those 150 applications, I looked at the job description and thought to myself, “Yeah, I can do that,” before hitting the Submit button. I have a lot of skills, and a lot of the postings are duplicates. I’m not applying to jobs that I don’t think I can do, like Strategic Negotiator for Network Content Distribution in Asia or anything like that.
If you notice Thomas’ posts about Matasano, they don’t filter based on resume at all. I wish everybody did that.
