At some point, if the company is not making efforts to reach out to better programmers (by actually looking up the name behind the open source project and showi

At some point, if the company is not making efforts to reach out to better programmers (by actually looking up the name behind the open source project and showing a strongly present figure in tech conferences) then it's their loss, no? If a company only trust "recruiters" to select (or pre-screen) candidates for them, then this says a lot about their way of managing and interacting with "our" kind of programmers (by that I mean people who read HN, are enthused by cool innovative projects, write blogs, publish open source code, ...) If the company doesn't help you bypass the recruiter, maybe you should bypass them altogether?