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Why I hate job hunting.

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I didn't properly understand this until I was a hiring manager working with a recruiter, but recruiters often send these e-mails without making any effort to verify that the hiring manager is interested in the candidate. If you don't have a profile that the hiring manager finds immediately attractive, putting you through a coding exercise can be the recruiter's way of building a case to the hiring manager for bringing you in to interview.

I find the whole thing frustrating, too, which is my response to all of these canned e-mails (unless I'm totally disinterested or I'm really actively looking) is, "I'd be happy to take a call with the hiring manager to discuss the position." If they're really interested, they'll take the call, and if they're not, I haven't wasted my time.

It was really hard comprehending this pastebin, you have to read it from bottom up it seems, and still... what.

Anyway, maybe you are searching for jobs in the wrong places? Hm? Those kind of condescending recruiters, ugh, stay away from them.

Just pass on, man there are greener fields ahead.

Thanks mate, this one came from Careers.stackoverflow.com. I think it was just a bad tomato though. First time I've had someone blatantly lie to me and not show. Overall the experience has been rough but traversable. This is obviously a low, other times I've had highs and come out of interviews that I could convey my abilities and we both agreed I wasn't the right fit.

I thought about re-arranging it, but I didn't want to take away from the structure of the email formatting. I just wanted to remove the identifying-information.

I can sympathize with the lows, most people can, fucking job searching sucks ass, ugh.

You'll find what you want to do, dont let these lows bring you down, and its really good you told them off right ahead, should have more people like you, so then these bad recruiters would stop their bad practices, it must mean someeebody is that desperate indeed that theyd fall for "do work for free and as a slave"-trick.

a github pull request isn't that bad. think about all the whiteboard C++ coding interviews most of the IT companies still do.

Yeah, agreed, but unless the OP is a fresh grad (doesnt look like it), it is too much to ask for a code sample before even an initial call.

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