If I had to guess, I&#x27;d imagine that wasn&#x27;t the only reason they brought you in, just that they sucked obtaining those details in a way that wasn&#x27;t overt and&#x2F;or greasy.<p>But, yeah, recruiters definitely do that.<p>If a recruiter wants to bring you in for an interview, they had better have a job for you. If they can&#x27;t tell you about the job in any substantive way let alone tell you who the client is then I&#x27;d say they&#x27;re full of shit and don&#x27;t bother. I can count on one finger the number of times I couldn&#x27;t say who that client was at that point (psycho client).<p>SOMETIMES, and I do this, I will ask someone to meet even though we don&#x27;t have a job (at that moment) that&#x27;s well suited for them. I&#x27;ll do it because they&#x27;re awesome as a person and professional and because they are looking for work in a core business of ours. But I will tell folks as much, and most are interested in meeting and chatting.