HACKER Q&A
📣 l1am0

Are you giving honest feedback to recruiters?


I get contact by recruiters a lot and today there was an exceptional bad cold message (bad rate, wrong technologies):

https://twitter.com/eu_frey/status/1479484463193235458

Are you responding to recruiters and telling them what you think? I would like to have the whole ecosystem get better and this is one way how I think we can help people to improve in their job...on the other hand, feels a bit like an asshole move, though.

  👤 tannerbrockwell Accepted Answer ✓
Feedback is uncompensated consultation. Freely telling someone why they are failing does not benefit you. Whether it benefits the overall industry in general, could be a net zero as you are then demonstrating a willingness to give away expertise for free.
👤 JSeymourATL
No response is powerful, honest feedback.

Relative to helping the ecosystem— evolve or die proposition.

If hiring talent is mission critical—- put your Top People on the task.

Don’t give this job to HR flunkies and hope they’ll find someone good.