[koide]

This only emphazises how different the world for programmers is in the USA (especially in the SF area) compared to the rest of the world. I only get three or four emails a year on linkedin, of them one's from Facebook, the other from Google, and the others are from local companies.

This kind of make me envious and wanting to be there for a while., to experience how's it like to be valued and sought after.

[rogerbinns]

You don't feel valued and sought after - more like spammed. It will quickly become very apparent that they haven't bothered reading or understanding your CV/resume and will say all sorts of stuff that obviously isn't true. The top of my CV/resume has a prominent "Note to recruiters" so it is trivial to tell if they did any work at all.

The recruiters operate in the same way as spammers. They send email far and wide to see if they can get any bites. If you want to be valued and sought after I suggest you start reading all the emails about helping out folks in Nigeria.

[vonmoltke]

That's about the level I get here in Dallas. All the pings I get from Seattle and SV are from the really big players, and I occasionally get a ping from a niche employer (Eaton and Idaho National Laboratory, for example) due to my EE and signal processing background.

[angelbob]

If you envy our level of spam, change the address on your LinkedIn profile and/or make a new honeypot one. Like the original article, you can actually find out empirically!

Then write a blog post about it.

[koide]

Only in how it shows the level of opportunities. But it's a good idea to experience it for myself.