Tech recruiters: maybe there are a few tolerable ones.
In 2012, a recruiter proclaimed to me that Golang was "irrelevant" while having zero understanding of technology or the industry. I thanked them and marked their emails as spam.
Another funny (or sad) thing - getting messages from recruiters with job recs saying you should have at least 5 years experience in Swift/React/whatever when the technology was just coming out.
In my experience in contracting is that most recruitment companies are run like sweatshops. They get lots of "consultants" (most with little to no IT knowledge) to do the recruiting. They are driven to hit KPIs and thus the candidate experience suffers. Yet another example of enshitification by biznoids.
> 15. Last but not least, treating your potential hires with respect is always a winning strategy!
LOUDER, for most of the recruiters.
I gave up on working with or even responding to recruiters a good two decades ago because even then, most of them - even in the tech industry! - were of the “washed-up jock/cheerleader” variety, trying to leverage social contacts to fill slots and having absolutely no clue about anything in tech.
And I mean complete technophobes that thought HTML was a sexually-transmitted disease… no shit, I had that comment back in the 90s from one of them that had only begun working with web developers.
For the final cherry on top, if you couldn’t materially further their career or metrics, you were noise to be ignored. If they determined that you weren’t a “rock star developer”, good luck ever hearing from them again.
In 2012, a recruiter proclaimed to me that Golang was "irrelevant" while having zero understanding of technology or the industry. I thanked them and marked their emails as spam.