Recruiters

These recruiters kill me. They left me a message yesterday saying they had an “exciting opportunity” with a “dynamic, young company”. My stress level was through the roof yesterday (esp. just after I got out of work), so I decided to put off calling them until today.

So I call Dan, the recruiter, and talk to him… Now remember, I’m looking for:

• Small company, possibly startup
• Exciting Technology
• No (car) commute
• No gov’t/military contracting

So he starts telling me about this place, they do boring telecom stuff for the military and require security clearances. They are rather large, and growing. He asks if I am interested, and I say not really, but I will check out their website and get back to him… I say that at least until the end of the year I am going to need to be really excited about an opportunity to squander more goodwill here at goodrich. He says how about a phone interview at first when the manager is in their office. I said OK, but then I remembered to ask where the company was located. BILLERICA! THE TOWN NEXT TO CHELMSFORD! Do these guys even pay attention to what I say? No, not at all.