[p4] Greetings from Google!--Looking for all you Perforce experts!

Wed Jul 11 16:25:58 PDT 2007

Hello Perforce Users,
Thought I should send out a note reminding you that Google is looking for
Perforce experts to help support our Perforce server. This position is based
out of Dublin,Ireland and can also be staffed in Bangalore/Hyderabad in
India. I request you to please read the job description and reply back to me
with a  copy of your resume . Referrals are welcome .:

Job Title: Perforce Support Specialist/Administrator - EU Headquarters
 Department
Overview: The world-class Engineering team at Google aims to solve the most
fascinating and difficult problems in computer science and make a positive
difference in tens of millions of lives every day. Google engineers are
always on the forefront in the creation of new and exciting products in a
number of areas, and play a key role in the development of one of the
world's most impressive computing infrastructures.  Job Description:

Perforce Support Specialist/Administrator - EU Headquarters

Will take day to day charge of the ticket support queue, triaging tickets, re-
assigning those tickets that can not be resolved, creating and updating
support documentation. Write tools to automate tasks and investigate ways to
improve the level of support we can offer. Generate and publish support
metrics (tickets submitted, tickets closed, open time for each ticket, etc.).
Must have focus and interest to develop Perforce skills to a more advanced
level.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII), Word or HTML
version of your CV/ resume to jobs at google.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include Perforce Support
Specialist/Administrator - EU Headquarters.

 Responsibilities:   Requirements:

   1. BS in Computer Science or other technical field.
   2. Prior professional experience in software engineering, revision
   control, and/or software configuration management.
   3. Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux.
   4. Good knowledge of Python and Perl. Other languages are a plus.
   5. Good knowledge of Perforce.
   6. Ability to work well with developers.
   7. Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and
   written.

  Company Overview: Google's innovative search technologies connect millions
of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by
Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top
web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising
program, which is the largest and fastest growing in the industry, provides
businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall
web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with
offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information,
visit www.google.com/jobs.

Looking forward to seeing all those responses coming in...Please do get in
touch with me for any more infomation that you might need at:

Shailaja Pittie
Engineering Recruiter, Google Staffing
650-253-1069
shailaja at google.com
http://www.google.com/jobs/

http://labs.google.com/why-google.html

----Only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be!

On 7/7/07, perforce-user-request at perforce.com <
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> From: "Alex Clarke" <nerfbat at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [p4] How does Bitkeeper compare to Perforce?
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> >Which brings to what I consider an outright lie:
> >>The Perforce ... database ... get[s] corrupted frequently
> >In 7 years of continuous operation we have never seen the database get
> corrupted.  AFAIK, this is a common experience.
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> My team has been using perforce for 4 years, with code + art in it.  For
> the
> most part it's been fine although sombody did check in a huge movie (~1gb)
> that got corrupted somehow (it shouldn't have been in source control in
> the
> first place so the admin deleted it, and the rest of the database was
> fine).
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> About the only real issue we have is the server occasionally running out
> of
> space, which only happens because we're putting 30-100mb maya files in
> there
> along with code.    Obliterating very old art files, or upgrading the
> server
> disk size has soted things out so far.  It would be nice if there was some
> way to archive off old content like AlienBrain buckets.
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Thanks,
Shailaja Pittie
Engineering Recruiter, Google Staffing
650-253-1069
shailaja at google.com
http://www.google.com/jobs/

http://labs.google.com/why-google.html

----Only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be!