That's only if you equate the recruiter to a minimum wage worker and yourself to their customer. There's a superiority bias in that rhetoric. The recruiter is a well-employed tech worker. And you're not their client or superior.

You can easily find the salaries of recruiters at FB. They're half of the base of an L3 with no RSUs. So sure recruiters are tech workers that are better paid than eg the service staff but let's not pretend there's not a two class system at FAANG.

This is not even remotely accurate, see https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Recruiter&search=Face....

Recruiters at FB seem to earn ~50-60% of the total compensation of Engineers at equivalent levels, doing a bit better at the bottom of the ladder (I don't see a single IC3 recruiter earning under $100k in the US; they'd have to be earning ~60k to be earning "half of the base of an L3 with no RSUs").

>Recruiters at FB seem to earn ~50-60% of the total compensation of Engineers at equivalent levels

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>they'd have to be earning ~60k to be earning "half of the base of an L3 with no RSUs"

The people that email you are not L3s. They're actually often contractors. When they're not they're definitely L1s (or maybe L2s since I think L1s are actually service staff).

If they're contractors I can't "easily" find their salaries, since they aren't listed on levels.fyi (and other sources e.g. glassdoor are grossly unreliable). And, uh, I think the proper point of comparison there would be to line them up with the compensation of contractor devs; from what I hear they also earn substantially less than FTEs.

initially it is that yes.

but it's the recruiter who decided to play along despite that. At that point OP has no choice but to elaborate and counter the 'criticizing from outside' thing

And who could blame them? I'm sure recruiters at most companies have a litany of responses they use based on the tone of the candidate. They get paid on how many people they can get into the interviews, accept an offer, and stay X months past their start date. Why wouldn't they use form responses on the off chance it works?

No choice but to create content for hacker news

Also he works for google, so he firmly believes his company is so much better than facebook so he need to have a big write-up to educate a hr there.

> Also he works for google, so he firmly believes his company is so much better than facebook so he need to have a big write-up to educate a hr there.

The author of this post, George Mandis, DOES NOT work at Google.

They are a “Google Developer Expert”, which is a person recognized by Google as having exemplary expertise in one or more of their Google Developers products. GDEs are awarded through the Google Developers Experts program established and administered by Google.

Anyone with a relevant background in web development can become a GDE.

Eligibility criteria → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Developer_Expert#Eligib...

Most effort I have seen anyone put into telling a recruiter they are not interested in a job. Well, got a blog out of it.

Wonder if they have similar conversations with recruiters from all other companies, would be great to see those published.