Are recruiters the most scammy and unethical people in tech?
A minority are good but I’ve dealth with hundreds at this point - most are terrible. Many are fake, lie a lot, make unprofessional remarks at times, and just waste a lot of people’s time. If not recruiters then who? TC 320k YOE 8
Why?
I have found them to be fake, lie, and waste a lot of people’s time. Nobody that I know that is not in HR likes them.
No,
Thanks for your input recruiter.
I expected that, awesome too predictible. Anyway I am engineering manager and always had great experience with recruiter.
Me.
Are you still with HP? TC looks great!
It’s solid TC I am grateful. And no I left HP a couple months back. I love the anonymity.
Congrats on the move!
You know the answer to that, don't you
Absolutely.
I have friends that they screwed with pretty badly.
Thousands of recruiters? Maybe you're butthurtt about something
I said maybe thousands but most likely in the hundreds. And no I’m not butt hurt but my team and I were just talking about the subject earlier, the general consensus was what was relayed in the post.
That would be HR
+1
You’re right HR as an org but I didn’t want to come after the org as there are some alright functions e.g. HR analytics, payroll, etc. I think it’s more fair to target the source of the mold.
Recruiters and HR are cut from the same cloth
Generally speaking, they are definitely the worst.
Haha I just spoke with a Nutanix recruiter today. She was super nice and transparent.
As OP said, not all - but definitely a majority. When I was running my startup I made sure that the last position that I would ever have to hire was a recruiter, and my whole team shared mutual feelings. Fortunately it never had to happen. I do know that many people in tech feel the same way about them.