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Cerf Launches UK Recruiting Tour

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the plenty-of-engineers-just-none-qualified dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that networking pioneer Vint Cerf is planning to tour the UK in an attempt to recruit coders for Google. From the article: 'Google admitted that it was having difficulties recruiting developers and would be targeting students and engineers.'"

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  1. insights long in coming by JanneM · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Google admitted that it was having difficulties recruiting developers and would be targeting students and engineers.'

    Yeah, they finally had to acknowledge that the previous recruiting strategy of targeting florists and mime-artists just wasn't panning out, code quality-wise.

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  2. The implications are astounding by Groo+Wanderer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would this mean that he is trying to get the best and the brightest to work in cerfdom?

              -Charlie

    (Apologies, could not resist. Must go make highbrow joke to a random person in the street as pennance.)

  3. Re:light years ahead of the US? by pneumatus · · Score: 1, Funny

    Cerf: I bet you $50 some guy on slashdot will comment on my use of 'light years ahead' rather than 'miles ahead' within 30 mins of an article being posted.
    Google guy: Deal!

    (may not have actually happend)

    You might just have made Cerf $50 :)

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    Just don't create a file called -rf. :-) -- Larry Wall
  4. Re:light years ahead of the US? by obarel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do I get the job then?

    Or am I just an instrument in the hands of smarter and richer people?

  5. Re:Vint Cert Speaking Monday Evening by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    If a new he was recruiting I would have taken my CV along!

    If speling and grammer is a prerequisite for working at Google, you haven't missed out on anything.