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Comment by matwood | Hacker News Reader

Use the rejection as motivation. Go build something that Google will want and have them buy you out. You get to become an employee and they end up paying you way more for the privilege of hiring you.

I look at a place like Google the same way I looked at grad school. A place to go where you can hopefully meet a co-founder :)

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Even better: go build something that Google will want, then reject their buyout offer and build a profitable company. Best revenge ever.

And then grow to be bigger than Google, buy Google, then fire the people who rejected you.

Don't make a $200 Billion mistake

http://www.cnbc.com/id/39710609/Warren_Buffett_Buying_Berksh...

And then achieve enlightenment and overcome petty grievances, hire back the people who rejected you, and have a big ol' group hug with them.

What happens if you get acquired by Google? Do they still make you go through the interview process?

In most cases (with exception large or high profile acquisitions) they do. However, the process is much less selective (i.e., most -- but not always all -- engineers in the acquired company get an offer) then if you apply directly to Google. Those who do not get an offer get a generous severance package.

I think it's more that the risk of a no-hire is spread across the whole company rather than it being less. If a potential acquisition target has a critical mass of lackluster employees, Google (and presumably other large companies) simply won't buy the company. So while the bar for you personally may be lower if the rest of your coworkers are good, the bar for you as a group is just as high or higher than individual hires.

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