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Recruiters are there to: 1. Manage the inflow of candidates. 2. Screen candidates to protect engineer time. 3. Sell the company to the candidate. 4. Manage
by djtriptych 9y ago
Recruiters are there to:
1. Manage the inflow of candidates.
2. Screen candidates to protect engineer time.
3. Sell the company to the candidate.
4. Manage the ongoing candidate/company relationship until an offer/no-hire decision.
The recruiters I (as a candidate) appreciate most absolutely excel at #4.
The screening happens at #2, and should be just enough to avoid inviting obvious no-hires to speak to your engineers. As a web programmer this involves questions on the order of "How many HTTP methods can you name?".
Honestly, a resource-constrained recruiting department just can't review the entire github/stackoverflow account of every potential candidate. The very best headhunter emails I've ever gotten came from CTOs/dev leads who managed to write a sentence or two about a project on my github. Nice when it happens, but I really don't think it scales.