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Once I had more than about 4-5 years of experience, I never saw the need for working with a recruiter. I tried a few and they always sent me to those kind of sh
by greghinch 14y ago
Once I had more than about 4-5 years of experience, I never saw the need for working with a recruiter. I tried a few and they always sent me to those kind of shops where you can just smell in the air that everyone hates their jobs and the devs are just code monkeys churning out whatever garbage some product guy pitched. If I want a job at a company, I apply. There's enough demand (and I'm confident enough in my skill set) that I don't see how a recruiter could help me.
Frankly in my mind, if I hear about a company through a recruiter, I figure it must suck to work there, or else they'd be able to find people on their own.
- shurane 14y agoOnce I had more than about 4-5 years of experience. How did you get a job before you had the experience and the skillset? I think recruiters are not that effective (at least in programming), but it seems like a 'safe' and 'obvious' investment for someone with money and no idea of how engineers think and work.
- greghinch 14y agoEven before then I found jobs on my own, but I was willing to give recruiters a shot. Never had one send me to a job I was remotely interested in.