A recruiter from some agency asked me details like how long is your sprint cycle, what my company’s product is programmed in, do i mostly work on maintaining code or building it from the scratch, where are remote teams located, how many people are there in my team etc. Then stopped interview when I said “I’m sorry, I can not talk about that” I felt like it was more of spying than an interview.
They could be using you to dig for prospecting information to present themselves to your company to hire them for their services.
How?
Not weird. You ask about Sprint cycles to understand if you work with Agile or some else. You ask about code to see if you're a drone or creative. Ask about remote teams and team size to see if it mirrors the role you're applying for.
Okay but these questions cross line. We are not suppose to disclose company’s operational information. Why do recruiters need these ?
How does your recruiter know what you're allowed to share? It varies by company, many don't have any rules about this.
I had a manager from Lenovo do a phone screen a while back. After I didn't know the answer to his question about who the top three server motherboard manufacturers were he discerned I'm not an engineer so shifted the entire line of questioning about our business. So I decided to screw with him because I know they were after the same customers. I told him about the margins we ran and fabricated everything. One customer we actually made money on I said we strategically bought the business at -2% and the customer we did buy business from I said was reliably 15-20%. He asked about our partners and I gave him detailed bs about made up partners. I hope it screwed him on the next RFP he competed against me.
Haha
definitely weird
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That’s weird. In my experience, legit recruiters will not ask for operational details, and in fact will request that candidates NOT disclose potentially confidential information.
Yeah, in most of the cases. I never heard of these questions before