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Comment by b_t_s | Hacker News Reader

Yea, Amazon's the most spammy of any known company, but the one that really blows me away is Apple. They occasionally send me recruiter spam at my work email. The work email that they got from its team membership in my employer's iOS developer account. That's pretty brazen.

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I have had a developer account for many years. That account is a member of several teams. I also have other unrelated developer accounts. None of them have ever gotten recruiting spam. I have never even heard of recruiting spam via this channel.

I don't know how a recruiter got your email but I doubt it was by trolling registered developers. If so they violated Apple's policies.

Weird. I've only been contacted by Apple recruiters once, and I've had a iOS Developer account with them for years. It seemed pretty clear that they encountered my profile on LinkedIn, too, based on the message.

I wasn't a good fit for that particular team at the time, but it would be nice if they ever tried again. I'm not in the valley, though, so that's probably why they don't contact me very often. Google and Amazon try to get in touch with me a lot more often than they do.

To be fair, this seems like a decent idea for recruitment. Someone with an active iOS developer account is a good deal more likely to be a "real" developer than a random LinkedIn crawl. That's still pretty shady, though.

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