[hodgesmr]

I'm always perplexed at how annoyed the dev community gets at recruiters. Sure, it's weird when they don't put forth an effort, but come on, you're getting unsolicited job offers multiple times a week! We're EXTREMELY lucky that our industry is flourishing right now. So many people have been unemployed for months (years) and they can't so much as get a phone-call.

Take the recruitment as flattery. If you're not interested, delete it and move on. Better yet, forward it to someone who might be interested.

[jaredsohn]

These are not "job offers". And getting contacted doesn't guarantee an interview either.

(But it is still good to treat people considering you as a job prospect as flattery.)

[darylfritz]

> getting contacted doesn't guarantee an interview either

I think this is the part that bothers me most. If a headhunter contacts me, why am I not given the inside-track for the interview?

[doktrin]

I agree. I remember the job market of 07-09, and appreciate being contacted by recruiters. In fact, I typically respond to most them in order to politely decline.

I'm too young to remember the post-dot-com years, but those weren't a walk in the park either (to put it very mildly).

[jaredsohn]

In 2004, craigslist listed only about ten tech jobs per day for the Bay Area.

Also, LinkedIn wasn't all that popular, there was no Hacker News, there was no Twitter, Facebook, etc., meetup didn't have organizers (so often it was just a collection of people showing up at a restaurant and chatting about some subject.)

[paddyforan]

This is the truest of all true things that are true.

Totally a first-world problem.

I share feedback with recruiters because I want feedback as an engineer. If they choose to ignore it... well, I'll have to find some way to deal with people trying to give me a job, I guess. Woe.