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Sure, it's great for companies filtering out resume spam but how about individuals trying to avoid recruiter spam? And beside, really good engineers are never
by dschobel 17y ago
Sure, it's great for companies filtering out resume spam but how about individuals trying to avoid recruiter spam?
And beside, really good engineers are never short of good offers.
It's standard operating procedure in our industry that when a manager or even a dev leaves, they always try to take the best engineers from their past job with them.
If it's not your first job out of school and you have to rely on throwing your CV in a black hole like SO Careers or Monster and hope to get offers from strangers you're doing something very wrong.
- pchristensen 17y agoSee another comment of mine on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=933490 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=933490 Plus, if you're resume isn't remarkable, you might have to do some crappy work to build it up. Life's rough, but if you want something, there's no better way to get it than to earn it.
- coriander 17y agogood engineers are never short of good offers Actually a lot of programmers suck at networking and are terrible at job hunting. This is a myth perpetuated by the you-get-what-you-deserve crowd who also believe that the homeless deserve to be where they are because they didn't play by the rules.
- HeyLaughingBoy 17y agoThis assumes that the place they're going to has openings for more than one person, or that the person they would take has the job requirements. Honestly, I have never seen what you describe in my 20 years in this industry. The only times anyone has tried to "poach" me has been when a new company was starting up.