Why so many developers hate recruiters

Seems like recruiting has the same basic problem as every other human-to-human matchmaking in that it is possible to identify potential, but not to predict the future.<p>There are some advantages to employee-employer matchmaking in that the relationship is primarily based on money and there&#x27;s a one-to-many pattern that repeats frequently.<p>I didn&#x27;t know that the spammy recruiters were literally stealing your identity to apply on your behalf. No wonder they&#x27;re hated. Still, I wonder how low the response rate would have to drop before spam is no longer profitable. Seems like that industry runs reasonably well on extremely low response rates.

<i>&quot;Since they get paid based on your starting salary, they are inclined to help you negotiate as high a starting salary as possible.&quot;</i><p>It isn&#x27;t quite that simple. They get paid nothing if you don&#x27;t get hired and thus aren&#x27;t going to negotiate very hard for you and risk losing the placement. It&#x27;s like the real estate situation where brokers won&#x27;t keep a house on the market as long for a client as they will if selling there own house.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=17jO_w6f8Ck" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=17jO_w6f8Ck</a>

Recruiters, real estate agents, car salespeople, etc, in general seem to be people that have no actual skills and get by in life as a warm body that&#x27;s generally accepted as a required party when two other parties have a supply&#x2F;demand situation.

Recruiters aren&#x27;t all bad, but the vast majority you&#x27;re likely to encounter in the wild are.