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"... The thing that annoyed me was that this article differs in no way whatsoever from what you'd hear in a Google recruitment video ..."

True, that made me laugh.

"... When a publication wants to tell its readers about something--even if that thing is good--there is an obligation to explore the issue. Literally letting your subject write the story is an abdication of that responsibility ..."

Good point.

Maybe you are right. Maybe it is a submarine ( http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html ) because I found the same post over on the Monster job section of the NY Times ~ http://jobmarket.nytimes.com/pages/jobs/ captured here ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/1685017453/



Hmm, good eye. I wonder if they'll respond to the question you sent them.


"... I wonder if they'll respond to the question you sent them. ..."

They have. A copy of the email text can be found here ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/1685662827/ Here's the response:

  Thank you for contacting NYTimes.com.
  This article was published in the NYTimes.com Job Market section.
  Article is by Bharat Mediratta; as told to Julie Bick.
 
  The Job Market section is essentially equivalent to a 
  help wanted section of a paper.
 
  Regards,
  Eric Winston  
  NYTimes .com
  Customer Service
  www.nytimes.com/help
A sub I guess. Thanks karzeem for being so critical. I'll be restricting the urls next time to tech or the main page of NYT. So another way to check for Submarines is to check both the location of the article in the paper (ie: is it in Tech, news or Jobs) and if the format, layout and bylines smell "funny".


I think it was a good submission, so you did the right thing by posting it here. It sparked some good discussion.




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