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We have a flat fee structure that's less than the 20-30% that regular recruiters take. We're trying to avoid being corrupted by 1) only working with companies

We have a flat fee structure that's less than the 20-30% that regular recruiters take. We're trying to avoid being corrupted by 1) only working with companies we know, like, and respect (so we're not tempted to encourage people to work at bad ones), and 2) the fact that our advantage over regular recruiters is that we're not like them. Good hackers know one and other. If we started doing the crap many recruiters do, people would (and should) call us out, and good people wouldn't want to work with us. [EDIT: Fix typos from writing in haste]

shazow 16y ago
You'd probably want to avoid working with companies you don't know/like/respect to keep your filter in place. On the other hand, I've made referrals to companies I wouldn't want to work at but the fit was simply perfect for the person in question. They're very happy there. Rough balance.
- nicholasjbs 16y ago
  It depends on why it is you didn't want to work there. The set of companies we know/like/respect is a superset of the companies we'd personally want to work at. A trivial example is a company in the bay area: It could be an absolutely fantastic place to work, but my strong personal preference to live in a city means it'd be a poor fit for me. That doesn't mean it's a bad place to work, it just means it's a bad place for someone who wants to live in NYC :)