[nebula8804]

>In the long term I don't think this is going to work at all, either they need to change their policy and attitude or literally no-one will work there given the choice lol.

I wanna see what happens when they cross this threshold. I don't think any company in modern US history has had to deal with this scenario?

I suspect they know this and are running out the clock before they are forced to raise wages to compensate. Essentially squeeze as much margin as they can now until they are force to dispense a few more crumbs.

Its insane how crazy they are getting with the recruiters. I am a loser who spends too much time on HN. A terrible mediocre dev with no really outstanding roles, yet these people are now finding my internal company email and reaching out. They somehow found my private phone number and are texting me. Who knows what will happen next? Maybe they will knock on my window in the dead of night lol.

[lovich]

That’s just the recruiters trying not to get fired. As a fellow mediocre dev who also gets contacted by Amazon recruiters I won’t believe they are interested in changing their ways until they either let up on the mandatory firings or they lower their standards. At the moment they are acting like the corporate equivalent of when you keep opening your fridge even though you decided you don’t want to eat anything in there

[nebula8804]

The recruiters still won't be getting those conversions so yeah they can get more desperate but in reality its an extension of the company getting more desperate. Thats why I think they will exhaust every possible lead and only then raise wages to attract people who will tolerate their conditions.

[delecti]

I had to get pretty stern with their recruiters to get it to stop. I was getting contacted at least once a month for a while, and it was getting close to once a week. I had to ask several different recruiters to get put on their "no contact" list, but what finally worked was mentioning the email alias of the previous recruiter who I had asked. My email ended with this:

> The recruiter who contacted me last week (John Doe, jdoe [not the actual name, obviously]) said he would do that, and that is clearly not the case. I'm finding these persistent emails rather obnoxious.

It's now been almost 3 months, and I'm very glad for the reduced spam.

[hemloc_io]

Me too, I've heard rumors of like 80% of an engineering team disappearing.

How many times can that happen before we end up in a situation where there's no work capable of being done lol.