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"genuine, personal connections"

Isn't that kind of a high bar to jump over for this?




Isn't the hiring process too? Standard today seems to be

- 1-2 phone screen interviews

- 1-2 remote coding exercises/interviews

- 4-5 45-60min round of interviews, on site

- Optionally, and extra interview day for culture fit

Is asking the recruiter to actually look at your profile and take an interest too much to ask, given what they're asking you for, and given how the market, at least in SV-like areas, is today?

It's great to work in this industry, don't get me wrong. But if some candidates don't want to even acknowledge automated requests, that's just how the market works.


This isn’t my experience. I have never done more than two interviews for a position. None of which involved coding or exercises. Perhaps this is the standard for businesses in the valley.


If as a recruiter, a job role that is 100% predicated on your ability to work with people, and sell people on why they should ostensibly hire other people, if you can't make even a basic personal connection with someone (you don't have to be their best friend and offer to give them a ride to the interview and wait outside in the car for them to come out-but I can tell the difference between someone who's interested to have a conversation and someone just trying to hit a goal and I bet you could too), probably the recruiting industry is a poor fit, career wise.

It's the product of time and experience, but I can smell a "quota" recruiter a mile away. I do not want to work with them.


Absolutely agree. Plus, I’d rather set the bar high for hiring than settle for mediocrity.


Tell that to the mid level exec who's got 200 seats to fill to hit his bonus pot, after which he's outta there. Leaving the company to deal with the 190 terrible coders he hired, naturally.


Extending the metaphor to the most possible extreme of course allows us to make the endlessly convenient counterpoints, but I think this skips over a big portion of necessary nuance to why someone may feel a bit turned off by a robotic, starched and ultimately dispassionate experience with recruiters.




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