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by wikwocket 4394 days ago
This is the correct answer.

Recruiters are generally desperate to fill roles, and doubly so for engineers in the current market. Some of them will carefully discern how to find the best candidates and contact them with discretion. Many of them will not.

If you want to work at Google, or anywhere else, then by all means pursue this. But treat being contacted by recruiters as an unrelated and independent event.