Comments on: Search microcosm in a forced carpool

By: sohbet

sohbet — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:52:00 +0000

thjnxxx

By: Jeff Lawrence

Jeff Lawrence — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:06:06 +0000

Actually this was a quite humerous post. Most of the time when I’m dropping my car off at Acura and take the vanpool thing into work you get the silent approach in the car, with maybe one nasty person in the back who gets a message on their Blackberry and decides that it would be the perfect time to yell on the cell phone. I guess maybe it is a difference between Nor Cal and So Cal?

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:22:15 +0000

Audrey, nice!

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:21:37 +0000

Jon, I would enjoy that, and I hope we intersect someday. Right now I’m barely keeping my head above water in terms of workload though; I’m about 400 emails behind where I need to be. You might mention the idea to Adam Lasnik though; he might be a little more of top of things than I am right now..

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:59:16 +0000

Matt, one word my friend, limo. (deep inside you know I’m right)

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:43:31 +0000

Matt,

I just graduated from school and movin out to mountain view to work for a startup . After hearing stories like that i’m even more excited about going… completely shot in the dark but email me if you’d like to meet up for lunch. i’m a young kid running a dot-com and it would be an absolutely awesome welcome to the valley.

By: Audrey - The Matt Cutts Makes Me Google Girl

Audrey - The Matt Cutts Makes Me Google Girl — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:26:09 +0000

Matt;

I wrote a post on my blog that I think you and your wife might enjoy… Go check it out, it’s called “Seo and Romance” LOL

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:04:37 +0000

I did have a good time, Harith, but I credit that just as much to trying a bunch of fun new things as much as not getting online for a week. I tried not using any computers for a week, and it was an interesting experiment. It turns out that you free up enough time to try a bunch of other stuff.

By: Digital Traveler

Digital Traveler — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:58:58 +0000

Ride on mass transit in any East European city and you’ll run into lots of people working for U.S.A startups.

By: Googler In-Law

Googler In-Law — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:20:10 +0000

I have three relatives working at Google. One was a *very* early employee. The other two bounced around at various startups trying to get rich, but no success. So the first guy offered to help them get jobs at Google.

The pair involved are very sweet, but not geniuses by any means. They got the jobs. They were very honest that the first guy was key in getting them in, first getting them to be considered at all, then coaching them through the interview process, which they had to redo several times to pass. Now everyone is happily enjoying their options.

So I would have to say that knowing the right people matters. It may not outweigh merit, but the stranger the interview process the greater the value in having an insider walk you through it. As Google gets bigger, this nepotistic/friendship effect may be hard to avoid.