[grosbisou]

> Referring someone for an interview and watching them get turned down was, for me at least, about 80% of the psychic cost of applying myself and getting turned down.

Wow it actually makes a lot of sense. Especially since you seemed to handpick candidates and vouch for them from a technical point of view.

I wonder if classic recruiters have this problem as they (most of the time) just bet on the number and are not invested personally.

[georgemcbay]

The vast majority of tech recruiters have no actual idea of how skilled their employee-side client is and are just keyword correlation machines that happen to be made of meat.

As such I doubt it impacts them much, if at all, beyond the obvious disappointment of not getting the salary cut, which they surely mitigate by just throwing candidates until one sticks.