I have questions for both you and IndianAstronaut, then. I see statements like this frequently. I also see people talking about desiring to work at places like Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia, and other such large tech companies that violate one or both of your rules. I assume you are not in that group? Would you really turn down one of those companies of a recruiter approached you and asked for a Word resume or told you to fill out a Taleo profile?

I kind of hinted at that in my original post. If it's a named company that I explicitly desire to work for then I might be willing to jump through a couple of hoops. Generally speaking, though, the name on the sign is not a strong indicator of whether or not I'm interested in working there. I'm usually looking for some combination of salary, technology stack or cool project, and strong/intelligent team. Having a recognizable company name on my resume is a very very low priority.

If a recruiter approached me, then sure. The recruiter is at least keeping an eye on my resume. Otherwise I will not apply. Taleo is a black hole.

Same here! It's a definite alert.

Even more irritating is that recruiters don't appear to know the difference between C#, C, C++ and Obj-C.