[hi-v-rocknroll]

Tech recruiters: maybe there are a few tolerable ones.

In 2012, a recruiter proclaimed to me that Golang was "irrelevant" while having zero understanding of technology or the industry. I thanked them and marked their emails as spam.

[diskevich]

Another funny (or sad) thing - getting messages from recruiters with job recs saying you should have at least 5 years experience in Swift/React/whatever when the technology was just coming out.

[hi-v-rocknroll]

I'm laughing out loud.

I should send out fictional resumes for social research of the form:

Senior full-stack engineer with 25 years of solid experience in React, Elixir, and Rust running production stacks in the real world.

[diskevich]

You will not be the only one using this approach, haha.

Check this out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29052903

[hi-v-rocknroll]

LinkedIn jumped the shark for me when everyone I met randomly was 2nd-3rd degree while the rare exception was someone who wasn't in those circles.

0. Never, ever add a recruiter as a LI connection.

1. Creating a list of people you used to know or places that no longer exist makes no sense at all. Even reggae gets it: https://genius.com/Desmond-dekker-fu-man-chu-lyrics