Folgendes lag heute in meiner E-Mail…

Hi Heiko,

My name is Shriram Gharpure and I am a recruiter for the Google.com engineering group. The Google.com (Site Reliability) team is the most dynamic, challenging and fun group, which is responsible for our Google website from start to finish. (It’s distinct from the Operations group.)

I wanted to ping you to see if you may be interested in opportunities in this group. We are constantly seeking extraordinary developers and UNIX (Linux) experts such as yourself to join our exciting team and growing organization. We have positions open in the USA in Mountain View (CA), Santa Monica (CA), New York (NY), and Kirkland (WA) as well as Dublin (Ireland) and Zurich (Switzerland); and we could relocate you to any of these locations of your choice. I am enclosing the links to the job descriptions of two positions that I feel may be a great match for you.

http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=23591

http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=23594

If you feel that either of these positions is something that may be of interest to you, please send me an email so we can schedule a time for me to call you to speak with you to discuss more details. I hope you are not bothered by my networking attempt. If you are not interested or available, but would like to forward my name and contact information to your friends or colleagues, I would be most delighted.

Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.

Best Wishes,

Shriram Gharpure

Site Reliability Engineering

Phone : xxx-xxx-xxxx (Telefonnummer höflichkeitshalber mal zensiert)

Da stellen sich einem doch schon so manche Fragen…

Wie kommt der grade auf mich bzw. an meine E-Mail-Adresse?
Wenn es Spam ist, wie kommt es dass die eigentliche Ausschreibung doch recht gut passt?

Naja, eine kurze Suche beim Arbeitgeber des guten Shriram zeigt zumindest, dass er mit er seine Netzwerksuche schon sehr breit streut. Vermutlich schreibt er sein Sprüchlein an alle, die auf einigen Linux-Mailinglisten aktiv sind.

Also wohl leider kein Grund, sich gebauchpinselt zu fühlen 🙂

Bleibt nur noch zu erwähnen, dass diese Mail es auch nur sehr knapp am Spamfilter vorbeigeschafft hat…