Around 90% of recruiters who called me are useless for industry.

And many, many other questions answers to which I have listed on this page. You may follow and see almost full list of those questions. Initially I was answering those questions and it was taking around 15 minutes of my time and usually after the "quiz" was completed they were telling me that they are going to send me email with "Rights to represent" and they asked me to confirm that email and then after they have sent me an email requesting my driver license copy (with "important" information covered) and my passport number and my green card copy. And eventually I came to decision to include all that information into my initial replies that I was sending in response to their mass emails with "Exciting opportunities" to my email that I used on job searching sites like monster.com, dice.com, linkedin and so on...

But including all the answers to all those questions in my initial reply message did not change nothing. Those Indian recruiters kept asking me same questions again ang again and again and again... So when I heard them starting their standard "quiz" - instead of answering to their question, I asked them "Did you read my email?", and after they answered "Yes" they still kept on going with their questions, so I ignored their questions and told them "So if you read my email, why are you asking me these questions? You should have been able to learn answers to these questions from my email message." and sometimes they just could not find any answer to that and stayed silent for next 10-15 seconds, and some other times they answered "We have to ask these questions over the phone." so eventually I came to conclusion that their main goal is not to find an employee for project, but to waste my time and make me invested with my time while answering all their questions so later I provide them with all sensitive information... The more time somebody invests into something - the more likely they will comply with further requests, and scammers know it too. I simply came to conclusion that they were all scammers and not worthy of my trust.

I also had so many initial video interviews (I have recorded only 80 of them during last 2 years and uploaded to my youtube channel which was recently removed under strange and suspicious circumstances which i might right separate article later about... but I have some guesses that it might also be related to Indian scammers) so I got tired of going through them. Mainly during those interviews (which also about 95% were conducted by Indian people and half of them were located in India at the moment of interview) I noticed that interviewers did not speak clear English (more than 80% of them objectively spoke significantly worse English than I do) and many times were not able to comprehend my accent and complex phrases that I was using. I read frustration and confusion in their eyes and on their facial expressions, and yet when I noticed those instances - they never clarified my answer (did not try to ask additional question), it feels like they were concerned looking not educated and felt vulnerable asking me to repeat or clarify or rephrase what I just said because that way they would have to admit that they are not familiar with this or that word or expression. And it became obvious to me that even if they were legit interviewers for legit projects - then they would not have good impression of me because of those reasons and lack of understanding and limited vocabulary... The reasons of cultural and language differences. Of course they would prefer somebody who they would be able to understand better, somebody of their origin and may be who speaks the same language with same pronunciation. Here in USA everyone is trying to pretend there is no racism or discrimination, because it would cause alot of problems if somebody would accuse company of those things and yet it does not mean it does not exist...

Some of recruiters who called me and whom I had interviews with were white Americans. I remember one lady called me and told me that she has opportunity from Paypal for me.

When white American recruiter calls (especially woman) then I can hear how they try to sound friendly, excited and polite. It sounds very fake, and they expect me to answer in the same "key" with "friendly" and "excited" tone of voice - as if I won the lottery, instead of being honest and congruent. This corporate culture amongst American corporations is disgustingly artificial to my nature. I see how they are trying to perform and fake positive attitude. Not all of them, but so many. They are not ready for honest answers to their questions and only expect "template" answers. If while answering their questions you "step away" from "regular" the script - they get confused and frustrated and politely trying to find reason to finish conversation often with "Thank you! I got all needed information and will reach out to you later.".

So coming back to that instance I referred to one paragraph ago (with white American recruiter lady with Paypalopportunity) - she had same expectations that I would follow the "farce dance" along with her, and when I did not - she asked me (if I remember correctly) questions like "I see you changed many jobs, were you on contract with them? Is that the reason you changed jobs so often?" - and this question by itself shows me the direction of her thoughts, it shows me that she is already looking for reasons to get rid of me and gives me a chance to give her answer that she could use to discard my candidature, and I answered that "Mainly I was contractor and there were different reasons for contract to end. Do you want to look closer at some particular example?. She ignored my question and asked me "I see you had your last project finished one year ago, have you worked after that?", and I answered "Yes, I have been working on my personal project while I am unemployed." and she said "Ouhh! So sorry, but Paypal does not want their employees to have personal projects. So sorry.". And it concluded our call. :) Can you imagen that?

Another instance would be my last interview I had with Alesya Harelik and later short conversation over email with Dmitry Trub from findev which I have described in details here and here. May be I wil republish those articles in one of fabulas on programmer-underworlds.club, but not today... So if you are interested to learn more about those - you are welcome to follow links above. ^-^

After that interview with Alesya - I was really disappointed and decided that I will not waste my time in interviews any longer and since then I have been requesting financial compensation for my time if somebody would like to conduct interview with me. On this page I have provided links to one recorded technical interview I have had some time ago. And explained my point of view on this matter.

Also - I have created templates of messages that I have been spreading as articles on my linkedin page and in comments to some posts. Below I bring those templates before your attention.

Recruiters are always have a bias as a human being. It is impossible for one human being to be unbiased as a result of each human being to have a life experience. Recruiters and HR CLAIM to be unbiased and business owners force everyone around to agree with such ignorant claim... And also ask people to accept these recruiters and HR as the unbiased judges of which candidate is the best candidate... This is a game where we have to accept the narrative of people who work at recruiting and HR about how good developers are WE where actually they have no Idea what good developers are because they never tried to write a complex system... And these people are set up to judge us for qualities they themselves do not possess... Most of the recruiters and HR are women who are SO FAR from being able to comprehend the complexities of what it is like to engineer complex logical systems and what traits person should possess in order to be able to accomplish it. These recruiters and HR judge developers based on traits GOOD SELL PERSON would possess... it is ridiculous.

Soon enough no candidates will give a shrink to recruiters delusional point of view... it has already started. ☺️ many and many people starting to wake up and realize that 90% of recruiters are useless and only parasitize on employers and candidates... ☺️Recruiters mostly are extra link in this chain... and gate keepers who are like a trolls on the bridge asking for money, but do not even read the candidate’s resumes... nor recruiters have knowledge to estimate if candidate fits to the position technically... recruiters are just clowns 🤡 who learned to talk with confidence about things they understand nothing about... ☺️ Recruiters were able to heat up the air and blow it into business owner’s ears as if they possess some kind of “magical detector” of the best candidates, whereas their actual goal is to ask candidate to take responsibility to lie on their own resume (“just a little embellish and polish” they say to candidate “because our client expects such skill from candidate. You have knowledge of this technology, right? Good then add it to 2 or 3 of your projects as if you worked with that technology” they say...) in order to shove in that candidate to their client with X3 price... ☺️ I wonder when business owners will get it...

I recommend that all who already hold employment continue to apply for at least one position each day. Declare in both resume and initial email that you expect financial compensation for participating in interviews, no lower than the hourly wage you would earn in the role itself. When recruiters begin receiving resumes with such expectations, word will rise through the chain of command like a slow gathering surge. It will reach overseers, executives, and the hidden masters of companies. Then they will understand that casting aside those who already labor under their banners will cost them dearly, for if they dismiss their current workers, they must still pay for the time of every candidate they wish to test. Thus can each worker fortify their own security by sending one resume a day bearing this expectation of compensated interview time. In time, every specialist, whether with five, ten, or fifteen years of experience, employed or not, may stand with rightful confidence when requesting payment for the hours spent in an interview. It is just that one’s time be honored. Companies demand payment for every service they render, so why should the worker be treated as lesser? To test a candidate is to occupy their hours, hours that could have been spent on craft or on the precious calm of rest. If you are ordered to complete an online assessment, remember your moral right to request compensation for the labor extracted. Recruiters too often gather such toil as tithe, replacing their burned out ranks at no cost to themselves. Marching through these trials without reward only strengthens their bastions and weakens every candidate. Let this stand as a warning carved upon a fortress wall: weigh the value of your time, for uncompensated duty is a burden no warrior should bear. Share this principle with comrades so more may take up this stance.

Of course there are good and legit recruiters exist. And I met them and worked with them, but with time it looks like this industry becomes greedier and greedier and gradually looses more and more humanity over time. I only talk about my personal experience that I have obtained over 20 years of my working experience and conclusions I came to over time, and it is up to you to decide what to do with knowledge you have obtained from this article.

And that is all for now. Hope you enjoyed. ^-^

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