Lessons learned as a recruiter hiring developers the last decade

Post by hi-v-rocknroll » Thu, May 16, 2024, 12:21 AM UTC

diskevich wrote: post #10

hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #6

Tech recruiters: maybe there are a few tolerable ones. In 2012, a recruiter proclaimed to me that Golang was "irrelevant" while having zero understanding of technology or the industry. I thanked them and marked their emails as spam.

Another funny (or sad) thing - getting messages from recruiters with job recs saying you should have at least 5 years experience in Swift/React/whatever when the technology was just coming out.

Post by Joel_Mckay » Thu, May 16, 2024, 12:37 AM UTC

hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #8

rekabis wrote: post #3

> 15. Last but not least, treating your potential hires with respect is always a winning strategy! LOUDER, for most of the recruiters. I gave up on working with or even responding to recruiters a good two decades ago because even then, most of them - even in the tech industry! - were of the “washed-up jock/cheerleader” variety, trying to leverage social contacts to fill slots and having absolutely no clue about anyth…

I nuked my LinkedIn ~2018. It was a constant firehose of random garbage reqs.

Post by hi-v-rocknroll » Thu, May 16, 2024, 1:04 AM UTC

diskevich wrote: post #12

hi-v-rocknroll wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm laughing out loud. I should send out fictional resumes for social research of the form: Senior full-stack engineer with 25 years of solid experience in React, Elixir, and Rust running production stacks in the real world.

You will not be the only one using this approach, haha. Check this out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29052903