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		omegote on June 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you ... He actually didn't apply, it was Google who contacted him in the first place.

pound on June 11, 2015 [–]

Google contacts plenty of people. Reaching out to yet another engineer (not even talking about this particular case) doesn't mean they really want someone particular. They just going through the pool of potential matches. Person who initiated contact may not even know what exactly Homebrew is.

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