My pal Jeff Barr of Amazon posted on his personal blog about how he was interviewed by Google and continues to get pinged by their recruiters after he already gave them a polite "no thanks". He asks whether their recruiters shouldn't maybe have way of looking up candidates in some sort of database -- you know, maybe like a search engine?

I don't think I've blogged about this yet, but I interviewed at Google from late 2005 through early 2006. The experience was pretty strange. Google kept me on the hook for five full months, having me in repeatedly for meetings with people who had no idea why they were talking to me or what to ask me, putting me in front of middle managers who would theoretically be my superiors but who had far less experience than me, handing me off from one recruiter to another, and never getting back to me when they promised to.

In one of the …