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As someone who's had recruiters find my personal email via my GitHub commits, this is a welcome feature.

by signed0 13y ago

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welder 13y ago
Why does everyone hate recruiters? I'm a developer and I just don't get why other devs hate them so much. See them for what they are(sales people wanting you as their next product) and get over it.
- jere 13y ago
  It's a sign of how spoiled we are that we complain when people try to find us employment.
  - wink 13y ago
    They're trying to cash in a fat bonus, not getting people a job first and foremost. At least the ones who message me after not reading my profile, just having a single buzzword match.
  - foobarbazqux 13y ago
    My guess is people want to feel like coding is something meaningful and worthwhile that they do instead of a lucrative, in-demand job in which they function as an expensive but interchangeable cog.
- qntmfred 13y ago
  because there's no unsubscribe. i went through a few recruiting agencies 5 years ago to get a job and now that my contact info is in all these recruiter databases, i get emails and/or phone calls almost daily. Even if I tell one recruiter I'm not interested, there will be a different one bothering me tomorrow. The worst part is that many of them are contacting me about jobs in a city that I don't even live in anymore.
- windsurfer 13y ago
  I don't hate them. I welcome recruiters to contact me. Some developers do not welcome recruiters to contact them, but they get recruiters contacting them anyways.
- publicfig 13y ago
  How does that make them seem any better? People tend not to like sales people as well.
- signed0 13y ago
  I don't hate them. I have no problem when they contact me through legitimate channels such as LinkedIn or StackOverflow. I even try to respond with a polite 'no' in most cases. I have a problem with them abusing the git commit logs to get at my personal email as a way of manipulating me.
- dylangs1030 13y ago
  I'll give you my reasons: 1) I've never had a positive experience with recruiters. 2) They have an observable tendency to embellish your resume for their own purposes, refer you to other recruiters, and network you in soliciting ways that you don't know about at first and don't agree to. 3) They obfuscate the hiring process so that you and a company cannot directly interact without going through the recruiter, and make it difficult to have a candid relationship in the interview process. 4) They only exist as a middleman, adding an extra step to an interview process which I am opposed to on principle. You're not doing this, but I really hate it when people minimize complaints about recruiters because they think we're spoiled. Those people tend to really not know much about how recruiters operate.
shiven 13y ago
Thank your choice of profession that you even have this 'problem'. I would literally dance on my hands if I were hounded (courted?) this way in my choice of profession (bio/pharmaceutical research)! Hell, if someone knows where else I could put up email, phone and CV to be seen by successful recruiters, please let me know. Quit the whining and be a bit more thankful for what you do have. Sheesh!
- bpodgursky 13y ago
  I think many developers complain about recruiters as a way of subtly bragging about how many people want to hire them. Secretly, they'd be kind of disappointed if the emails stopped coming.
  - shiven 13y ago
    Clearly a cousin of the "HumbleBrag", this should be called the "HumbleWhine"... Boo Hoo, Just Look At Me, What An Awesome Developer I Am, That So Many Recruiters Spam Me With Their Offers Darn, spoilt rich kids (devs) and their rich problems!
    - dylangs1030 13y ago
      This isn't a fair perspective. Recruiters are legitimately annoying. Especially as many recruiters obfuscate the hiring process so you can't just skip them directly to the company they're fielding. There's a long litany of abuses they take part in quite frequently, ranging from knowingly introducing you to companies you're not qualified for just because you're a "programmer" to deliberately making the hiring process for a company difficult without their direct participation.
      - lsiebert 13y ago
        When you have a job, maybe you can afford to be annoyed. When you don't, a recruiter is helpful.
  - dylangs1030 13y ago
nonchalance 13y ago
Actually, a few recruiters found my personal address by scraping AUTHORS files like https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/AUTHORS https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/AUTHORS

As someone who's had recruiters find my personal email via my GitHub commits, this is a welcome feature.

by signed0 13y ago

As someone who's had recruiters find my personal email via my GitHub commits, this is a welcome feature.

deleted 13y ago

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welder 13y ago

Why does everyone hate recruiters? I'm a developer and I just don't get why other devs hate them so much. See them for what they are(sales people wanting you as their next product) and get over it.

jere 13y ago
It's a sign of how spoiled we are that we complain when people try to find us employment.
- wink 13y ago
  They're trying to cash in a fat bonus, not getting people a job first and foremost. At least the ones who message me after not reading my profile, just having a single buzzword match.
- foobarbazqux 13y ago
  My guess is people want to feel like coding is something meaningful and worthwhile that they do instead of a lucrative, in-demand job in which they function as an expensive but interchangeable cog.
qntmfred 13y ago
because there's no unsubscribe. i went through a few recruiting agencies 5 years ago to get a job and now that my contact info is in all these recruiter databases, i get emails and/or phone calls almost daily. Even if I tell one recruiter I'm not interested, there will be a different one bothering me tomorrow. The worst part is that many of them are contacting me about jobs in a city that I don't even live in anymore.
windsurfer 13y ago
I don't hate them. I welcome recruiters to contact me. Some developers do not welcome recruiters to contact them, but they get recruiters contacting them anyways.
publicfig 13y ago
How does that make them seem any better? People tend not to like sales people as well.
signed0 13y ago
I don't hate them. I have no problem when they contact me through legitimate channels such as LinkedIn or StackOverflow. I even try to respond with a polite 'no' in most cases. I have a problem with them abusing the git commit logs to get at my personal email as a way of manipulating me.
dylangs1030 13y ago
I'll give you my reasons: 1) I've never had a positive experience with recruiters. 2) They have an observable tendency to embellish your resume for their own purposes, refer you to other recruiters, and network you in soliciting ways that you don't know about at first and don't agree to. 3) They obfuscate the hiring process so that you and a company cannot directly interact without going through the recruiter, and make it difficult to have a candid relationship in the interview process. 4) They only exist as a middleman, adding an extra step to an interview process which I am opposed to on principle. You're not doing this, but I really hate it when people minimize complaints about recruiters because they think we're spoiled. Those people tend to really not know much about how recruiters operate.

shiven 13y ago

Thank your choice of profession that you even have this 'problem'. I would literally dance on my hands if I were hounded (courted?) this way in my choice of profession (bio/pharmaceutical research)! Hell, if someone knows where else I could put up email, phone and CV to be seen by successful recruiters, please let me know. Quit the whining and be a bit more thankful for what you do have. Sheesh!

bpodgursky 13y ago
I think many developers complain about recruiters as a way of subtly bragging about how many people want to hire them. Secretly, they'd be kind of disappointed if the emails stopped coming.
- shiven 13y ago
  Clearly a cousin of the "HumbleBrag", this should be called the "HumbleWhine"... Boo Hoo, Just Look At Me, What An Awesome Developer I Am, That So Many Recruiters Spam Me With Their Offers Darn, spoilt rich kids (devs) and their rich problems!
  - dylangs1030 13y ago
    This isn't a fair perspective. Recruiters are legitimately annoying. Especially as many recruiters obfuscate the hiring process so you can't just skip them directly to the company they're fielding. There's a long litany of abuses they take part in quite frequently, ranging from knowingly introducing you to companies you're not qualified for just because you're a "programmer" to deliberately making the hiring process for a company difficult without their direct participation.
    - lsiebert 13y ago
      When you have a job, maybe you can afford to be annoyed. When you don't, a recruiter is helpful.
- dylangs1030 13y ago

nonchalance 13y ago

Actually, a few recruiters found my personal address by scraping AUTHORS files like https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/AUTHORS https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/AUTHORS