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It's the bullshit that gets me. The lies. "I read your profile and I think you'd be perfect for this role" - Amazon recruiter, who didn't notice I'd stopped wo
by mabbo 10y ago
It's the bullshit that gets me. The lies.
"I read your profile and I think you'd be perfect for this role" - Amazon recruiter, who didn't notice I'd stopped working at Amazon 4 weeks before, as clearly indicated on the profile they 'read'.
They aren't even outside of the norm. Technical recruiters are about 90% bullshitters who would say anything at all if it meant they got you into an interview. I'm with my current company in large part because our recruiter is in the other 10%.
- vaishaksuresh 10y agoI once got an email from a recruiter while I was still in the same company and had been there for almost a year.
- bcbrown 10y agoI once got an email from a recruiter, a week or so after phone screening for the exact same position, through the exact same recruiter.
- Aloha 10y agoYeah. I got this.. about once a month when I worked for a major telecom.
- rrrx3 10y agoA friend of mine at my last job has had this happen often enough that it's become a goal to set up an interview with himself.
- tlrobinson 10y agoMy favorites are the ones that reference my joke GitHub projects (like evil.css https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/ https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/ ) as if they're the pinnacle of my achievements (I have actually worked on notable open source projects, but they're not hosted under my personal GitHub account...) Facebook: I came across your Github profile and I noticed your long-stack-traces and evil.css projects have been gaining quite some traction on Github. Fitbit: P.S. Cool to see long-stack-traces and evil-css getting some love! unnnamed venture-funded startup: I found your profile on Github and I like all the work you've done with JavaScript and node (and especially evil.css) This one actually seemed genuine: Oh man, I remember evil.css. A guy I used to work with set it as my Safari user stylesheet, then forgot about it. I don't use Safari all the time, so it took me a while to realize something was wrong, and even longer for that guy to remember what he'd done to my machine. So uh... thanks for that. :P
- mabbo 10y agoBut look, look, they did read something about you! They aren't 100% full of shit! It's an actual, personalized message and not 'hey {candidate_name}!'
- jogjayr 10y agoYeah, that's mostly my reaction too. OTOH, there's no reason that sort of email can't be generated from a list of templates either. My favorite was when a recruiter obliquely referenced something I'd once tweeted complaining about recruiter spam.
- foldr 10y agoI don't see how that's so bad. They took a bit of time to mention some of your projects. Obviously they're not going to study them in detail.
- walrus01 10y ago> Facebook: I came across your Github profile and I noticed your ipv6 enabled goatse steganography projects have been gaining quite some traction on Github.
- shortstuffsushi 10y agoThis makes it SUPER obvious when they're lying, for me. My profile, at the end, if you press "read more," specifically says no Amazon recruiters. None of them read it. Ever. Or if they did, they specifically overlook it and don't acknowledge it in their spam mail. The funny thing is that I've had several smaller / more local recruiters comment on it and laugh. They get a small amount of respect / hold my attention longer than the first line of the email. If it was less than once every two weeks, it wouldn't be such a problem. Heck, once in three months like in the article sounds like a huge improvement. They are seriously relentless.
- xenadu02 10y agoI just switched jobs 5 months back and a Pandora recruiter emailed me a few days after Pandora announced layoffs. a) Emailing people that just switched jobs is a waste; most people will stay a year at least. b) Who wants to go work for a company that is having layoffs? Fortunately I'm happy where I am now but I was astounded at the brazenness.
- walrus01 10y ago> ""I read your profile and I think you'd be perfect for this role"" example: You're a freebsd/netbsd/openbsd sysadmin with a CCNP and some asshat is trying to recruit you for a front end HTML5/CSS UI/UX designer position. Seriously. Jesus christ.
- otakucode 10y agoJust try actually going to one of those interviews and then turning down the job offer sometime. Recruiters go absolutely feral when that happens.