Has anyone had experience with a tendency that the companies that recruiters are pitching aren’t typically great companies to work at because they feel the need to hire recruiters to get talent in the first place? Versus a great company may just post a job positioning publicly and get tons of applicants. Is a recruiter worth the headache of interacting with?

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Privileged view. It’s a mixed bag. The recruiters are just trying to make a buck and the companies may not have experience doing it in-house. PwC was one of the worst experiences I have had and it’s a big name. KPMG was better and it was smaller.

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Yea so a lot of them are 1099 or head hunters. They don’t have the technical skills but they give u a straight line in. At Kpmg a head hunter got me an offer from Goldman when they’d turn me down regularly. I have had other ghost me or submit me for roles that don’t make sense. It’s mixed like most things in the world.

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