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No kidding. The amount of contact I've had over the last few years, by what might be best-tagged as 'low-ballers'? Absurd. The most amusing, puerile trick go
by bbarnett 6y ago
No kidding. The amount of contact I've had over the last few years, by what might be best-tagged as 'low-ballers'? Absurd.
The most amusing, puerile trick goes somewhat like this:
Looking for junior full stack dev. Expert at query optimization, scaling, python, etc
Junior?! Add the word 'expert' once, and by no means is it a junior role.
I recently had a recruiter approach me with a job description such as:
"Able to mentor junior devs"
along with
"Make key decisions" about this and that, peppered throughout the job description.
Ah. I see. A management role, under the guise of a 'junior' job title. On top of this, my linkedin shows 10+ years experience!
Why are you even calling me for a junior role to begin with? Well the answer is obvious. Keyword search, without even glancing at the linkedin profile.
Then on top of all of that, the pay is below the average junior role position locally. Wha?!
Precisely what are these people looking for? An "extremely intelligent", "driven" and "highly capable" dev, combined with "gullible" and "easy to trick"?
And even if you find such a person, what's the point of it all, when they get offered 2x the salary in 3 months?
I just don't get it.
- cosmodisk 6y agoThese are the people who used to sell mobile phones in your local shopping center before, by some luck, ended up in recruitment.They have no idea that JS and Java aren't the same. They tend to call random people hoping something will stick. Sometimes, such recruiters get hired by equally delusional companies and hence the results you described.