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Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction

Posted by timothy on from the even-uncle-sam-wants-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When Pete London posted a resume on LinkedIn in December 2009, the JavaScript specialist stumbled into a trap of sorts. Shortly after creating a profile he received a message from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, another from Mozilla. Facebook reached out the next month and over the course of the next two years, nearly every big name in tech – attempt to lure him to a new employer. He received 530 messages in all, or one every 40 hours ... the only problem? Pete London didn't exist."

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  1. Re:Click-whoring post. How could this get approved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's not journalism at all so saying it's "shitty journalism" is not relevant.

    Hey, if this site claims to be a "news" site, then it is journalism. They should do their fucking job and actually, you know, write a summary.

    An anonymous reader wrote in that there was a story on another site and provided a summary.

    Exactly. Provided someone else's summary.

    This is where the disagreement lies between actual news sites and aggregators. The news sites say it's plagiarism and the aggregators say it isn't - they're just "search utilities" like Google.

    Call it what you will - I call it fucking lazy.