Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month

theatlantic.com

13 points·fourmii··8 comments

I DON'T TALK TO RECRUITERS!

I'm amazed at how quickly the reporter turned around that story. I talked to her yesterday afternoon. Also unexpected: my face in the article, lol.

I used to read every single email I get from recruiters. They used to give me confidence. Nowadays I don't even open my LinkeIn mailbox:

http://i.imgur.com/cdDQDu8.png

After being rejected by Google, my only goal in life is to be good enough for Google. No matter if in that point, I'll be interested in working there or not. I just want to be that good

Maybe you really are good enough for Google, but their hiring process is hopelessly broken.

It's wrong to view approval from one specific person or corporation as your benchmark for success.

Don't give them that power. The person that cares the least has the most power. Google doesn't care. The only way for you to win is to care less.

The spam for openings in other states is particularly frustrating for me. I'm job-hunting, and I have notifications enabled for email - I get my hopes up, then see that it's (frequently) that one recruiter who just cannot remember our previous conversations about "I live in San Francisco, and I'm not moving." Frustrating!

I live and work in Iceland as a software developer (C++, python, javascript and related libraries) and havent had a single e-mail from a recruiter for the past two years I've been on linkedIn.

Is this strictly a US problem?

Why do we have to imagine this? This is reality for software engineers on LinkedIn.

This is non-news for most hackers, but is actually surprising to people outside of the industry. The atlantic has a wide readership. A lot of people are having trouble finding any work. They'd be surprised that some people would find 30 job offers irritating.

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