I love Portland, Maine. I don't blame you for not wanting to leave.
I'm shocked how many telecommuters live here in Maine; and dismayed at the number of companies who think we actually want to move to the Valley.
Dear Recruiters
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#42It is rather arrogant I think.
I agree, especially the deal breakers section. No Microsoft Windows? At all? I use whatever gets the job done, as any good technologist would.
Technically, any technology CAN get the job done, but the author clearly feels that Windows is never the best choice. Personally, I completely agree with him. Developing on Windows offers no advantage over OS X or Linux.
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#44Heh, I wish this sort of stuff happened to me.
I don't receive recruitment messages, not even the spammy ones.
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#45His LinkedIn profile has an alphabet soup of technologies and programming languages. Even if a recruiter did read it, like he requests, they would have no idea what this guy's real focus is. It even mentions Windows, as well as Xcode and iPhone development when he is clearly a server engineer.
Maybe he needs to revise or shorten his resume before lashing out at recruiters for not reading it. I'm not a recruiter, I'm a developer who makes $225k, has unlimited vacation and lives In San Francisco. As a developer, I feel that guys like him give us all a bad name and make us look arrogant, inflexible and hard to work with. Maybe this attitude is why he still doesn't make his ideal salary of 200k.
After this blog post I doubt he's going to get any other job, let alone one that meets his minbar.
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#46It is rather arrogant I think.
I agree, especially the deal breakers section. No Microsoft Windows? At all? I use whatever gets the job done, as any good technologist would.
Sure, we all do, but there's a difference between using something because it is the best tool for the job, and using it because "we use hammers for everything around here."
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#47Why talk down to people like so, almost treating the recruiters like they were little children who need to be lectured about how to behave. Recruiters are human beings too, who are just trying to do their job.
Try posting a public resume on Monster sometime, and wait for the multiple e-mails about a perfect opportunity, and then if you follow up on them it's a 3 month contract in Lower Bumfark, Kansas.
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#48These days, I reply to recruiters with what they can realistically expect in the market, job description vs. expect pay rate. More often than not, the pay they're offering is way, way too low for the market at large, never mind myself.
Sometimes I get a reply, sometimes not, but I get the feeling that by & large the terms are out of their hands, and I doubt the recruiter sending the emails/making contacts is the same person that got the req from the hiring manager/company. It's that person, the person accepting the req, that needs to know the market and work with the hiring entity to put together a realistic job package. It's that person you should be frustrated with.
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#49I really don't mind recruiters badgering me by email or any form of non-disruptive communication. Keeps me nicely updated on the market, and tells me who to avoid should I actively be looking for something.
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#50What I want is even simpler.
On LinkedIn I told you that due to family circumstances I am not available for full time work until the summer of 2014. Is it 2014? Do you have a part time contract? No and no? Then why are you contacting me?