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In my experience (ex-Googler here), recruiters tend to be contractors who work off a script and get bonuses proportionate to how many people end up in the hirin
by HerraBRE 14y ago
In my experience (ex-Googler here), recruiters tend to be contractors who work off a script and get bonuses proportionate to how many people end up in the hiring pipeline. There are checks and balances to prevent outright spam, but the motivations are aligned in such a way that a pretty wide net is cast.
Also, until you have interviewed, all positions are "unspecified". Many positions need to be filled and they don't pick one for you until they know what you can do.
Geography is not really considered to be an issue. Once SRE finds someone they really want they will help with relocation.
- cyber 14y agoAlso an ex-Googler here, they cast the net far and wide trying to pick up SRE. When I was there they were offering significant bounties for submitting recommendations that only had to make it pass the resume screen. Want a brand new shiny PS3? Less than 10* that made it past the resume screen, and it was yours. I has additionally heard rumors that recruiters were so silo'ed that they would actually just throw away a resume rather than route it. Reason being that they were in a competition with all recruiters, and worst performers (based strictly on a numbers game) didn't get their contracts renewed. *May have been as low as less than 5, its been a few years, and I never really took to memorize what was posted on the wall while I was at the urinal.