Reminds me of all the recruiters who reach out to me saying they're working on filling some engineer position but never say the company name, and when asked, they want to have a call.
Stop wasting my time, STATE THE COMPANY UPFRONT AND AT THE TOP, preferably in the subject line
This is not in the recruiter's interest though, because you may just go past them and apply to the company directly, so they miss out on their revenue.
I love picking apart a recruiter's emails, in a handful of cases I see the advert and I'm like "Oh yeah I used to work there". Go and React in a telecom company in NL near where I live? Yeah I set that up. No I don't want to go back, not unless they hire an actual team.
Every recruiter I have dealt with (on the hiring side) has had a provision in the contract: if they have a documented exchange with a candidate whom we hire during or within (a month, two months...) of the contract end, the recruiter is deemed to have done the work. Contrarily, if we have a documented exchange with a candidate before the recruiter does, the recruiter is not owed anything.
So: the recruiter has an incentive to mention the hiring company as soon as they get a response from you.
If they don't do that, they are either bad at writing contracts or don't actually have authority to recruit. Mostly the second: you would not be surprised at the number of cold emails I get saying that they represent a candidate (or a pool of candidates) who are exactly right for the position that we filled last month.
My favorite was the game of trying to figure out if multiple recruiters were trying to forward me to the exact same job/hiring company and trying to get them to stop stepping on each other's toes and try to a pick a "winner" recruiter for that specific role.
It's a weird thing to miss, but this layoff cycle so far I haven't seen any recent recruiter emails at all, which seems strange on multiple levels.
Email only is not a good option for them. They need candidates that aren't at least a total embarrassment when presented to their clients, so the phone call really is a first screening interview.
If you want a conversation between humans, a phone call may be a good option. With email only, there is a good chance it will turn into a talk between bots. Bots can make phone calls too, but it is more complicated and a bit too obvious.
I don't mind having a phone call, it's the multiple layers of screening interviews with ill prepared questions that feels like a giant waste of time. I'd rather answer all those questions in an email and have the phone call as a formality. I do recognize the need to confirm that the person writing is indeed the person you are speaking to but I should at least be able to get a straight answer on salary and comp before I pick up the phone.
This. I don't mind having a phone call, but I do mind wasting time on it by repeating everything that they could have learned about me before the call and running into sanity checks (e.g. salary expectations) that they could have done beforehand. At that point, it's just laziness by the recruiter and comes off as an attempt to pressure me it doing something they couldn't justify rationally.
They can't, otherwise a significant fraction of the people they reach out to would just skip the head hunter and contact the company directly.
Same reason these same head hunters will usually strip any direct-contact details out of your resume before sending on to companies -- they don't want those companies running around them and contacting the candidate directly.
IMO, these people are all grifters and uses-car-salesman. Their goal is to get as many people as possible to use them to change jobs so they get bonuses. They provide little-to-no value add in the actual process and will actively try to shovel you toward shitty companies and dead-end roles, despite how well they dress them up.
You are ~20-50%~ cheaper (typical is 30% IIRC) in the first year of your employment if you are a direct hire instead of going through a recruiter, from a hiring manager's perspective. If you switch jobs often this compounds to make your offer chances lower as well if you're going through a head hunter (I've been part of these discussions from hiring side).
Not exactly. Recruiters often can guarantee an interview with the hiring manager while if you submitted your resume to the company directly, you'll just get lost in the sea of resumes so not much point going around them. I also always give them a PDF resume and I'm pretty sure they don't edit them as sometimes during a video interview the employer pulls up my resume as a screen share to go through it and it's always been the exact one I've had with all my personal contact details.
It's simply not worth it for either the employer and interviewee to go around the recruiter because they act as a filter for both sides initially.
Definitely could be selection bias, but every time I have seen a copy of a resume a head hunter has forwarded a potential employer it has _always_ had the recruiting firm's letterhead plastered above my content, and my email removed.
Source: I've been a programmer for 25 years, and ran a recruitment company for 8.
This happens, but it's unusual. It's normally only really something you'd bother with as a recruiter if you were doing CV marketing, that is, reaching out to people who aren't your clients saying "this is the kind of person I could get you!". They're not really meant to do it, but recruitment regulations aren't strongly enforced in most of the Anglosphere.
To fill a role with one of your clients, they've signed T&Cs that mean they can't really cut you out, and assuming they don't hate you they also don't want to lose you as a recruiter. Fucking candidates absolutely will try and occasionally cut you out of the process -- usually out of incorrectly thinking it will help them land the job because the employer won't have to pay a commission.
There are many shitty recruiters, but finding a good one will absolutely help you find good roles, and can do all sorts of useful things like make sure you're asking for enough money, get feedback that you wouldn't directly get as a candidate, harass the hiring manager about your application on your behalf, and engage in a dialogue with the hiring manager about your application that virtually no hiring manager would be willing to do directly with you.
I've had one good recruiter, one mediocre one, and many shit ones.
The good one got me a job that I stayed at for almost 27 years.
The mediocre one got me a job that I only stayed at for 18 months (it was a rather dysfunctional company). It wasn't really the recruiter's fault. I think they really thought that they had gotten me a good one.
The shitty ones were ones that I encountered, after leaving the 27-year job, and started looking for work.
Every single one, ghosted me, as soon as they found out that I was over 40. A couple were really quite rude.
In-company recruiters were better. They didn't ghost me, but the techies that got involved at the second interview did that.
After some of these, I just said "Bugger this for a lark," and gave up. I didn't need the work, and I certainly didn't need to be insulted, each time I tried looking.
n=1, I have been in tech for 25+ years, and a recruiter has always been my preferred entry into an org when I don't have a network connection. Our incentives are aligned; I want the work, they get paid if I get hired and stay. Their sales commission depends on me succeeding. Without a recruiter, a company is trying to hire the best candidate at the lowest comp offered possible. The greater rate at which workers change jobs for better comp, the more likely comp is to go up (this is why companies pulled remote work and are trying to create geographic stickiness for jobs in the US, to slow wage gains and reduce labor mobility). I would suggest reconsidering your view on recruiters. Some suck, some are worth their weight in gold. If the job turns out to be suboptimal, do your best to find out before you take the role, or live your life in a way you can bail for the next job without much hassle.
When you have success with recruiters, connect and keep in touch with them. A career is long, and its good to have options, as you never know when you'll need them. Optimize for optionality in this context.
There are a lot of places that are more interested in rejecting people than they are in accepting people and the act of getting a headhunter involved a commitment device that helps get them out of the rejection mindset.
Depends- my current position was via a staffing firm that was engaged directly by my new company to fill the position, since they had an existing trust relationship.
But they indeed were comfortable revealing the hiring company early in the process due to that trust level…
fwiw my experience building a small tech talent agency / recruiting shop disagrees with this. Cold application pipelines are overwhelmed by gen AI applications and many of the (very qualified) candidates we place report getting totally ghosted on all cold applications - even when we’re able to get them several interviews a week with companies in our network.
Seems like companies still value a curated pipeline. 15-20% of first year salary (numbers we see these days) appears to be worth saving the company time interviewing unscreened candidates. Recruiting can be a real time suck and a bad hire can be catastrophic.
An example (I have intimate experience with) is the finance/hft space in NYC -- if you're employed at a competitive player in this space in trading/quant/engineering you will almost certainly be given a phone interview w/o question at every other competitor when you reach out.
If you don't trust the 'contact us' forms on their website it's dead simple to search e.g. LinkedIn to find their own in-house recruiters and reach out directly.
Again, if you're a new grad? Definitely higher chance of your contact going right into the trash. But the target hires are still getting called back within a day.
There is a certain amount of job interviewing that people do to gather intelligence. I've went to numerous job interviews where I was trying to find out what was going on and not particularly interested in changing jobs. Companies sure do interview people for the same reason.
Or they don't have a job opening at all and are just looking to bolster the database.
I remember the annual cycle back in the day. During quieter times of the year, I'd suddenly get a tonne of calls from various recruiters with a job (no company name) ... almost as if they'd been told, "ok, no one's hiring or placing right now, no point you sitting there on your arse while I pay you. So pick up the phone and get some qualified leads"
The easy way to get around this is by telling the recruiter you've been actively applying with companies inside your state and for remote contract work and you don't want to be submitted twice.
If your input is an arbitrary float, you need to check for denormals (and maybe NaNs). You can do bitmasking trick to avoid conditional jumps but I'm skeptical you can do it faster than SIMD multiply instruction.
> Most common software that typical buyers use is available on Mac or Windows
That's not how most people think. Most non-techies are either fluent with "how to use a Mac" or "how to use Windows" and they will just stick with that inertia.
For a lot of people, learning a new OS is an ordeal.
Also possible that people have paid for licenses / apps and thus want to stay with the OS those will run on, instead of having to pay again (if it's even an option).
I have a 12 and the screen is fine. It's no OLED but I have no complaints for what it is. I love it as a secondary tablet-laptop for drawing and reading comics (primary laptop is a Framework 16 which I'm also in love with for Unity3D game dev and similar tasks, that one needs Windows for Visual Studio but I'm enjoying Gentoo on the 12)
Framework 13 is close to 100% sRGB which is important for any kind of creative work or photo editing.
Framework 12 screen is only 66% which is pretty terrible color reproduction. You edit something and it ends up looking like something else on the gold standard consumer devices.
There have been a few screen revisions on the 13, so there's a decent chance that a better screen will be available eventually on the 12 as an upgrade.
No, their competition thinks they're getting outcompeted, just have to wait 6 more months for the AI to really get going. Meanwhile no one is shipping anything good.
I'm less worried about being 'outcompeted' by clankers than the possibility that AI slop products become so numerous that it is almost impossible to get noticed.
Yep, this is basically the world today. The only difference in the real world:
"What if I told you you can buy that $10 hat today using borrowed money that you don't have, pay $1/year interest for the rest of your life until you pay it back, but you have to earn $2/year more in order to have $1/year more to pay, but to earn $2/year more, your company has to earn $3/year more"
"Oh and you also need to buy insurance for that $10 hat because it's not yours, and you have to pay us for the insurance we're going to buy in addition to the insurance you're going to buy to insure us from you, so that'll be another $1, or you have to make $2 more to have $1, or your company needs to make $3 more, so now your company needs to make $6/year more"
"Oh and we're also going to devalue the $ so you actually need to make $10/year more because a $ won't be worth that much in a couple years"
On my Unifi setup at home with multiple APs I had to disable 802.11r to get things to roam fast. I have Android and Linux laptop, wife has iPhone and MacBook.
With 802.11r on, things would disconnect for 60+ seconds before reconnecting. It was a constant frustration of "arrrrrrrggghhhh fucking connect damnit I'm standing a meter in front of the AP can't you fucking see it fuck fuck fuck just connect, it's right THERE, connect NOW, arghhh" and then it would completely disconnect (no wifi found) and then reconnect a minute later.
With 802.11r off things just roam smoothly. I guess the people who inventned the tech didn't test it thoroughly enough.
It might be that UBNT has screwed up the settings when in 802.11r mode. I have 802.11r set up on my OpenWRT Ones and I'm seeing what appears to be A-OK roaming with my Linux laptop and Pixel 5a. I do also have DAWN installed (solely to populate the "hearing map") and umdns installed... but it's not clear to me if those are actually useful.
Unless they've reimplemented the whole damn thing since like 2018 or so, UniFi is OpenWRT with the serial numbers filed off, and UBNT is known to be not especially great at having good software on the APs. I had a square UAP-AC and then an AC-LITE and an AC-LR all running the official software for several years. While the management GUI seemed like it'd come in handy if you had to manage like a hundred APs, I wasn't impressed with either official support or the rest of the software.
I've been using the U6-Pro backed by UCG-Max and couldn't be happier.
Yes - the software running on the standalone APs is still basically OpenWRT wrapped with a management layer. But UniFi has grown to a much larger system. All the router boxes are running Debian, for example (even those with a built-in AP).
> They have come a very long way since the UAP-AC.
I agree. The AC-LR and AC-LITE were way better than the -AC. That guy ran extremely hot and was dogshit at multicast. In contrast, the -LITE and -LR merely ran notably hot and were merely intermittently bad at multicast.
Loading up OpenWRT on the -LR and -LITE made them work quite a lot better (though -obviously- they still ran just as warm). Ditching them for the OpenWRT One was even nicer.
Once you're not using default settings, here be dragons. In theory 802.11r is a standard. In practice enabling 802.11r puts you into the minority of users who do so. There's a lot less quality assurance coverage there.
You're at the mercy of UniFi not having any show stopping bugs (haha), the client device supporting 802.11r or at least tolerating it, and the interaction between UniFi and the client not having any show stopping bugs.
Stop wasting my time, STATE THE COMPANY UPFRONT AND AT THE TOP, preferably in the subject line
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