[DrJaws]

Saying that they "poached" engineers make it look like they are property of a company and can't move looking for better opportunities.

[mnx]

I don't like that word either, but it seems to be the standard term.

[mikeash]

"Hired" would work just as well here.

[bpicolo]

Uber recruiters once emails about 100 engineers in my company the same email...except they managed to swap around the first/last names on all of them.

[rspeer]

Most recruiters are comically bad at targeting -- apparently there isn't enough downside to just carpet-bombing as many e-mail addresses as they can find -- but this does not mean that recruiting is inherently wrong.

[bpicolo]

The funny bit was the swapped names, it's like they had a spreadsheet but shifted a column down. Didn't double check the names against emails so I assume it was automated.