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In HBO's Silicon Valley, Gilfoyle starts getting all kinds of gifts couriered to him from recruiters just so that they get noticed. Is there any truth to this?
And I've seen some people receive gifts around me from other companies (small things like chocolates). Nowhere like the SV show.
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Recruiters don't get paid if you don't get hired. They are not incentivized to get you the highest salary, they're incentivized to get you hired .
The bigger the salary, the bigger their commission is. So, yes, they are incentivized by salary as well. Not the case for internal recruiters.
You sign at 100k, they make 20% so: $20,000
You sign at 110k, they make 20% so: $22,000
No deal, they make 20% so: $0
Do you think they have much incentive to make that extra $2k, while introducing more risk, and not spending time on the other openings they're working?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recruiters don't get paid if you don't get hired. They are not incentivized to get you the highest salary, they're incentivized to get you hired .
The bigger the salary, the bigger their commission is. So, yes, they are incentivized by salary as well. Not the case for internal recruiters.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bigger the salary, the bigger their commission is. So, yes, they are incentivized by salary as well. Not the case for internal recruiters.
Yes, that's technically true: You sign at 100k, they make 20% so: $20,000 You sign at 110k, they make 20% so: $22,000 No deal, they make 20% so: $0 Do you think they have much incentive to make that extra $2k, while introducing more risk, and not spending time on the other openings they're working?
Why? Two reasons:
1. Because they are salespeople. In sales, you never leave money on the table if you can avoid it.
2. Good engineers are really hard to find, which is why the companies that use external recruiters do so in the first place.
Oh, and yes, external recruiters will negotiate salary on your behalf.
First party recruiters are fine, if incompetent in technical matters. Third party recruiters are usually scummy salesmen types.
It's usually easy to tell when a 3rd party recruiter is wasting your time (sometimes they don't even read the first line of your LinkedIn profile summary). On the other hand, there isn't much you can do when an otherwise good company has a chaotic recruiting process.
I think recruiters are great. I've been working with them for almost 20 years. As long as they are local recruiters working with local companies. I have 20 recruiters all from different companies in my contacts. - They have always asked me for permission before submitting me to a company. - My application never goes into a black hole like it would if I were applying for a company directly. I don't think I've ever bee…
This. A recruiter is someone 'on the inside' fighting and pushing for you. It's a huge help if you don't have a referral inside the company or know other people that work there.
I like that they can simultaneously act as consulting firms and get me short term gigs on the side even though they just placed me at a company.
I like that I can get them paid and they can get me paid, by stretching compensation demands.
Fast interviews.
Completely opposite experience here. Nothing good ever came from the recruiters (unlike the direct contacts with the companies). Usually they are hiring for the most undesirable roles/ problematic companies, they misrepresent the roles to the candidates and the candidates to the companies. The most annoying thing is however when they cold email you saying "I have this great role for an awesome company". Without sayin…