Engineer-to-Engineer Recruiting • Hacker News Board

Re: Engineer-to-Engineer Recruiting

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Post by maxk42 » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 1:08 AM UTC

Volscio wrote: post #9

Jemaclus wrote: post #3

What's really frustrating is when I get a seemingly personalized email, and then six of my coworkers say that they got the same email. Do recruiters really think we don't talk to each other?

I try not to take it out on recruiters because from people I know who've done it, their bosses are constantly on their asses to make quota/reach a certain # of "connections" a day. The personal touch and relationship kind of goes out the window.

Well then it's the recruiters in management. The industry is broken and hostile to developers.

Re: Engineer-to-Engineer Recruiting

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Post by solarmist » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 6:44 PM UTC

lostcolony wrote: post #15

solarmist wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't start getting a ton of recruiter spam until I had a linkedin profile and started "connecting" with recruiters on linkedin (to "get my name out"; not sure I'd use this method to get my name out again though). Before that I would only occasionally get anything. Now every time I update my profile I get a flood of recruiter spam.

You don't need to connect to recruiters, per se. But yes, having a LinkedIn profile will ensure you get a constant trickle of recruiters. Any time you touch your profile, expect the number to increase; LinkedIn's algorithm seems to promote newly updated profiles, likely due from the assumption that touching your LinkedIn profile is like updating your resume; you're more probable to be looking for a job than someone w…

Well, it also made a big difference once I moved to the Valley

Re: Engineer-to-Engineer Recruiting

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Post by argonaut » Sat, Jan 11, 2014, 4:26 AM UTC

lostcolony wrote: post #30

argonaut wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of those recruiters are agency recruiters working on contingency. Meaning they don't actually work for the company they're recruiting for, they just get paid for successfully referring engineers to that company. The reason they're so vague is because they don't want you skipping over them and contacting the company directly, which would save you/the company a lot of money (and cause them to lose their recruitin…

Like I said, "to where they won't get their finder's fee" I understand them wanting to protect their sources, but they have to give some details. "I have a Java backend position in the telecommunication sector, it would be on the client's (whatever team) that (does whatever). I'm looking for a developer with 3-5 years experience in Java or other static OO languages; the client uses (frameworks), and some knowledge of…

We are in agreement.