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Well recruiters are idiots for the most part: 1. I had a recruiter from Amazon reach out to me about “exciting opportunities” as an SDE on LinkedIn. The issue
by JustExAWS 2y ago
Well recruiters are idiots for the most part:
1. I had a recruiter from Amazon reach out to me about “exciting opportunities” as an SDE on LinkedIn. The issue was that my profile showed that I was already working at AWS.
2. A recruiter from Google reached out to me about an Engineering Manager position. Not only did I not have any management experience on my profile, my current position then was in the consulting department (full time) at AWS - it wasn’t even officially software development
3. A recruiter from Meta reached out to me about a senior software engineer position in AI. Again, my profile clearly showed a bunch of no name CRUD developer jobs and then working in consulting
Recruiter outreach is no indication of careful targeted outreach
- compiler-devel 2y agoRecruiters, in my case, have either been contractors or employees of the companies for which they're hiring. In the latter case, they're better prepared than those of the former.
- JustExAWS 2y agoThese were recruiters working for the respective companies.
- cereal_cable 2y agoI would only assume the other side of this entire conversation, from the recruiters view is that it is also a numbers game. Recruiters are effectively sales jobs just a different contract to close on. Get enough leads and eventually they close. I'd expect that don't care if the resumes are perfect. There's very little lost for being wrong.