I'm talking about the ones that are employed by some recruiting firm. Their incentive to help you is that they get a small cut of your salary, which is paid by

I'm talking about the ones that are employed by some recruiting firm. Their incentive to help you is that they get a small cut of your salary, which is paid by the company who hires you. And while, yes, you can argue that it is still indirectly from your salary, the opportunities that opened up and salary that was negotiated for you above the initial offer, evens it out, and makes it a win-win I think. BTW I'm not familiar with Cyber Coders but, from an initial Google search, it seems like not the ones that I'm talking about. They seem more .. gimicky, I guess, than the one that I used. When I talked with my recruiter it was more of a smaller shop with deep connections in the Chicago trading industry.