This is a classic bait and switch strategy that recruiters use. They have contracts for 3-4 "sexy" 1M+ positions open, so they dangle them in front of you to entice you into a conversation. Once they have you on the phone, they ask you for a resume they can send around to all of their entry-level positions.<p>IMO these recruiters are a big waste of time.
Honestly I have never found recruiters useful, and I've had some incredibly rude responses from them when I have politely declined, or when I have simply ignored them as spam. It's amazing to watch as a series of emails just gets progressively more aggressive and argumentative, as though they believe that they are <i>entitled</i> to my time.<p>If you send an unsolicited recruitment email you haven't earned a response.<p>Of course they always hide who's they're recruiting for (except for one time with a FB recruiter who got passive aggressive with my not responding - this is after I'd responded to multiple prior recruiters that I would literally never work there - where honestly I feel I should have tried to find a contact at FB to forward it to.<p>[edit: I also realize the "up to X" is bullshit, and should reply asking what the minimum is]
Curious—- have you checked out this recruiters individual profile and his firm? Do they look remotely legit?<p>There are certainly some eye-popping compensation packages out there these days.<p>Basic rule of thumb: recruiting at the $1M level requires a certain finesse and sophistication to engage high caliber prospective talent.<p>Coming at me cold with a $1M tease, just sounds bogus.
The worst new trend I've seen is a "soft offer" prior to the final round interview. These are also usually way out of alignment with the role / other teams. Not willing to name and shame here - but it's annoying and a waste of time.
"Up to" is upper limit on what they claim you could potentially make - a meaningless term. You can make up to $500 million dollars selling water filters in an MLM marketing scheme if only you sell 6 billion of them.