Obviously I have very limited experience with jobs though wanted to share some here. I am getting a few recruiter emails lately from various companies. Some of

Obviously I have very limited experience with jobs though wanted to share some here. I am getting a few recruiter emails lately from various companies. Some of them really do over-estimate me (I always tell them the truth though) and some just don't mind and will continue the recruitment and interview process with me. For example, this week someone tried to recruit me for a senior level (from a famous company). I told him the truth; I am only an undergraduate senior, I can't really call myself a senior level engineer. At most, above junior level. The email, I am not sure if it was generic or not, but started with "I'm impressed with your experience and work...". It could be just a generic body - to make people like me excited about the email! From what I understand, they usually just crawl through mailing list and Github-like places. So to students out there, participate in OSS and OSS mailing list will get you some attention. I promise. I obviously don't mind someone getting me 30 recruitment emails every month. But I guess when I reach that level of famous, of competence and successful, I will look at them as spams. If I want to recruit someone that successful, I'd meet that person in real life. Go to the conference, walk up to him and tell him the offer.