Post #2401087
2026-05-10 02:03 UTC
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club
The average tech recruiter does not know the difference between Java and JavaScript, wouldn't understand if you (I) explain it to them, and does not think that this is a problem.
Given that tech recruiters want 25-30% of a salary per position, any company that knows that it will hire 5 or more people this year should hire their own clever/ competent/polite person as a dedicated recruiter at an engineering salary. For some reason this rarely occurs to companies of that size -- finding good new employees is not a "core competency" so they outsource it badly instead.
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@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club 2026-05-10 02:33
@dashdsrdash@tilde.zone Part of the circular problem is that, if they could identify a competent recruiter, they could probably find the candidates themselves anyway. One of the larger in-house teams we've worked with asked me to stop screening candidates because they had so much faith in their automated process... which an applicant attempted and reported it immediately broke entirely I was telling @huronbikes@cyberplace.social bikes the other day that, if they knew how to hire someone, they wouldn't need to hire someone