“God, I hate recruiters”

Re:“God, I hate recruiters” by msoad on Friday April 26, 2013 @06:21PM (#5615846)

I get 2-3 emails per day in LinkedIn. I read all of them. It gives me confidence that I'm hot and it's easy for me to just move on from my current job. When I see Twitter, Facebook, HP, Google and Apple are reaching out to me, it gives me confidence.

I sometimes use small but rich startups that can afford high salaries as a tool to get a raise. Just by bringing their offer to my manager's table if it's required. This year I'm targeting $180K salary. It would be impossible without recruiters help.

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Re:“God, I hate recruiters” by username111 on Friday April 26, 2013 @06:55PM (#5615978)

Just a heads up, confidence is the correct noun to use.

Confident is the adjective form.

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Re:“God, I hate recruiters” by aaronblohowiak on Friday April 26, 2013 @07:30PM (#5616097)

Neat obscure language thing: adjectival is the adjectival form of adjective.

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Re:“God, I hate recruiters” by msoad on Friday April 26, 2013 @07:10PM (#5616037)

Edited. Thanks. I am not native English speaker. :)

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Re:“God, I hate recruiters” by Odin9 on Friday April 26, 2013 @07:29PM (#5616095)

How did you go from "started programming (for real) about 2 years ago" to recruitment offers from Google/Apple and "targeting $180K"?

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Re:“God, I hate recruiters” by StavrosK on Friday April 26, 2013 @07:39PM (#5616124)

You can get recruitment offers without knowing any programming (fake profile) and you can technically target $180k if you're making $5k.

I'm not saying that's what the GP is doing, but it's not impossible!

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Re:“God, I hate recruiters” by msoad on Friday April 26, 2013 @07:39PM (#5616122)

I'm just really good at it I guess. I went to software engineering school in my homeland country but both quality of university and my desire to learn were not there. After I moved to the US all of sudden I felt in love with programming.

The reason I'm not responding to big companies yet is that I don't have enough english and US work history. I failed at Yahoo! just because I was not able to speak good English(they said it).

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Re:“God, I hate recruiters” by azth on Friday April 26, 2013 @09:22PM (#5616419)

Out of curiosity, where do you work? :) And what's your home country?

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Re:“God, I hate recruiters” by general_failure on Saturday April 27, 2013 @02:27AM (#5617008)

Sarcasm is lost on the internet

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