Why “recruiters” is being discussed
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Nope, they won't. Recruiters look for keywords and companies on your resume. If someone has built something as a personal project that doesn't count for squat.
by flowerlad · Oct 8, 2026
there are good recruiters out there; if you find one they'll probably get you several jobs over your career. The baseline is so shockingly low that you'd think more recruiters w…
by skeeter2020 · Oct 8, 2026
I'm always reading about how much of a meritocracy these tech places are. And that the US is a bastion of free market enterprise compared to backwaters like the UK. So if this w…
by mvc · Oct 8, 2026
I actively report these as spam (they are) and block the email. +1 on insulting intelligence. > they probably haven't spent more than 10 seconds looking at my profile to see if…
by piedude223 · Oct 8, 2026
And block on pass, because real recruiters wouldn't know any of this, so correct answer indicates it's a bot.
by TeMPOraL · Oct 8, 2026
I think the problem is that people aren't cloud capacity you spin up / down. There was very definitely a shortage of qualified SWEs pre-AI, during the boom times from 2010-…
by safog · Oct 8, 2026
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