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by bpicolo 3408 days ago
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.
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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.
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.