Hi, On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 18:02 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, > > it looks like as soon as one becomes DD, an email arrives from Google > recruiters. > > I understand that some people may find it interesting, and some people > find it annoying. My experience with just ignoring their email was that > I was contacted again. > > I am toying with the idea of contacting companies with aggressive > recruiting policies like Google asking them to please leave us in peace, > and offering instead to maintain a wiki page of recruiting contacts for > companies that like the taste of DD blood. Something like: > > These companies consider Debian Developers as especially interesting > people to recruit. If you are a Debian Developer and looking for a > job, you can reach them using the contacts below: > > Google: <foo@google.com> > Facebook: <bar@facebook.com> > Amazon: <baz@amazon.com> > Canonical: <gnu@canonical.com> > ... > > and so on. > > Comments? Actually they have tried many times even before I became DD. I know other non-DD maintainers who have been bothered by them too. I don't see a general solution for this, since some may like it. In my case I've told all recruiters that I'd never ever work for Google, and that I was a bad coder and a messy as sysadmin, which is pretty true. So they stopped for real. Regards,
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