Want 30 Job Offers a Month? It's Not As Great As You Think

Posted by timothy on Friday May 1, 2015 @12:02PM from the zippy-the-pinhead-is-always-hiring dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Software engineers suffer from a problem that most other industries wish they had: too much demand. There's a great story at the Atlantic entitled Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (It Isn't as Awesome as You Might Think). This is a problem that many engineers deal with: place your resume on a job board and proceed to be spammed multiple times per day for jobs in places that you would never go to (URGENT REQUIREMENT IN DETROIT!!!!!, etc). Google "recruiter spam" and there are many tales of engineers being overwhelmed by this. One engineer, fed up by a lack of a recruiting spam blackhole, set up NoRecruitingSpam.com with directions on how to stop this modern tech scourge. Have you been the victim of recruiting spam?

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Re:I work in Detroit by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-01 13:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

Apparently you have know clue whats going on in detroit. Its an absolutley huge town for engineers. Hello auto industry (fca, gm and ford) with all the car infotainment and mobile devices and tech being put into cars lots of jobs. Plus a plethora of many other industries. Detroit over the last 5 years has had a renaissance of revitalization and companies are paying big cash for top talent to work and live in Detroit. Living in the midwest and make +6 figures with the cost of living is an absolute goldmine. But if you feel that way stay away and I am happy to take those jobs!