My two cents... >From my (limited) experience, the developer-recruiter relationship seems to occur on the spectrum between two points. The first is where the developer is a product (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-moving_consumer_goods). It is part of the reality of the arrangement that of the two parties being match-made, one of them is paying in cash. As a developer, especially in a community as social as the Ruby one, it can feel hollow when someone is talking to you only for a paycheck. On the other hand, "makers" tend to unfairly undervalue salespeople all the time.
At the other end, there are recruiters who, when you interact with them, it genuinely feels like you are partners in a project to get you hired. There's listening and compassion and industry insight and all those good things. In reality alot of relationships will fall somewhere in the middle. Maybe that's a product of the fast-moving industry that we're in. It's a job that requires some hustle and hey, we've all gotta eat. I think that general dislike is generally unfair, but it's human nature to generalise unfairly. It must be rough to be a recruiter in this climate, and I can imagine that it's an uphill battle for the genuinely good ones (I won't pimp any out here, but we probably all know some) to work through the stigma and build those relationships. On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 7:57:07 PM UTC+10, Dan Draper wrote: > > In the developer community you often hear of resentment towards > recruiters. I have my own ideas but I'd love to hear what people think on > this. Why do coders often dislike recruiters? > > -- > Dan Draper > CEO and Co-founder > www.codehire.com > <http://www.codehire.com/?utm_source=emailsig&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email> > > Twitter: @danieldraper > Skype: danieldraper100 > Mobile: AUS: +61 403 089 661 US: +1 (310) 310 1721 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ddraper > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
