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I do not actually believe in karma or any other form of cosmic justice. But blowing off easy employment prospects in public strikes me as the kind of collective

I do not actually believe in karma or any other form of cosmic justice. But blowing off easy employment prospects in public strikes me as the kind of collective sin that we will all be struck down for eventually. It's bad form. With that disclaimer, the thing that personally gets to me about recruiting emails is name-dropping distasteful investors. I worry about the teams out there being created from programmers responding positively to the idea of working for the guy who's trying to keep poor people off of his private beach. Or the guy trying to build his own offshore platform for monkey knife fighting tournaments. Or the guy trying to split up California to make new republican senators. Or the guy who's a notorious patent troll.

makeset 12y ago
It's not necessarily easy employment prospects though. Recruiters are playing a numbers game, too. For a given job opening, it's in their best financial interest to pitch as many potential candidates as possible, in case one sticks. There is no real cost to them to solicit a multitude of résumés, and no immediate benefit whether the position is a good fit on either side, as long as a hire occurs through them.
- mcfunley 12y ago
  The point is really that this experience isn't shared by other people in other industries. I'd feel silly explaining how many unsolicited recruiting emails I get to the folks I know in entertainment, fashion, marketing, or whatever. They have to hustle just to get interviews. They get laid off. They're unemployed for long stretches. They have to suffer through horrifying unpaid internships. Sure, you're being spammed at the top end of the recruiter's funnel here. But the funnel doesn't even exist for a lot of non-tech job descriptions.
gaius 12y ago
That and boasting to everyone that "coding" is so easy, anyone can do it!
- collyw 12y ago
  Anyone can write shit code. Decent maintainable code that works, is a different matter.

makeset 12y ago

It's not necessarily easy employment prospects though. Recruiters are playing a numbers game, too. For a given job opening, it's in their best financial interest to pitch as many potential candidates as possible, in case one sticks. There is no real cost to them to solicit a multitude of résumés, and no immediate benefit whether the position is a good fit on either side, as long as a hire occurs through them.

mcfunley 12y ago
The point is really that this experience isn't shared by other people in other industries. I'd feel silly explaining how many unsolicited recruiting emails I get to the folks I know in entertainment, fashion, marketing, or whatever. They have to hustle just to get interviews. They get laid off. They're unemployed for long stretches. They have to suffer through horrifying unpaid internships. Sure, you're being spammed at the top end of the recruiter's funnel here. But the funnel doesn't even exist for a lot of non-tech job descriptions.

gaius 12y ago

That and boasting to everyone that "coding" is so easy, anyone can do it!

collyw 12y ago
Anyone can write shit code. Decent maintainable code that works, is a different matter.