The garbage recruiters are trying to sell is insane.

Don’t scrape the bottom of the ocean trying to pass barnacles off as salmon!

Just because someone can make computer go “beep boop” -- and you can’t — says more about you then it does about them.

Do they have a single thing in their portfolio that is even a little better than the output of the average “Learn x in y mins” video on youtube? Let that stock simmer for a little longer before you serve it!

Nothing in their portfolio at all you say? They’ve never once written code unless they were forced to? Top talent! Hired!

They scored 80% on your screening test? Wow! My dog scored 90%.

Modern day snake oil peddlers the lot of them.

f* HR turns the world to shite.
once i got turned down for a job of emptying thrashcans in subway stations, i got rejected because i was the wrong colour (white) and because of that i wouldnt integrate into the team.

thats not only racist but is also bullshit. wtf team? i walk around with a fucking caddy and empty garbage fucking cans!

fucking hr fucking parasites

@bad-frog sorry but they wanted to see more subway trash can emptying experience. Your sidewalk trash can experience doesn’t carry over to what the client needs. Recruiter logic...

@TeachMeCode yeah. in that way it isnt the strongest example either.

i applied for a construction job once, but got rejected for having strong work ethic.
it wouldnt sit well with the rest of the team, notorious for being lazy. literally.

HR ghosted me after the interview because i am taking work to heart.
i only knew about that one because i had a friend who was working there and told me the reason why. (not hr but hr ppl like to gloat about their greatness it seems).

but that one turned out allright for me, as in the next job after 3 months i became team leader.
however it stands out: its an instance where HR actively sabotages their workplace because of bs considerations. and the worst part is that thats what happens when they follow their training to the tee.

I think the bit about having no portfolio is BS. I work full time and have a family. I'm not wasting time working on code when I'm not being paid. The culture of programmers doing work for free (or for the "love") is SO FUCKED

lmao at the "garbage collection" tag

@nururururu just 4 u bey bey

Fucking recruiters create the problem then force you to pay for them to solve it.

"I just took a shit in your pool, pay me to clean it".

But honestly it's on us devs - if we took the time to apply directly to companies instead of sitting like primadonnas waiting for recruiters to find us a job they'd go out of business.

@Nihil75
But we actually are the prima donnas of IT. They can't sing the opera themselves, neither can they write actual software...
And writing software actually is hard. Excell and Powerpoint skills really don't transfer that well - neither do personal management and accounting skills.

So traditionally, just waiting for them to come worked pretty good.
It is only the last few years where recruiting became so crappy, that you now have to search yourself. "Specialized" "recruiters" can't even be trusted to properly aim a dump anymore (it really is a mess and it stinks)...