The last few months have been an interesting mix of learning empathy for some of the pathologies of the recruiting industry and being absolutely slackjawed amazed at how bad some players [edit in response to reply: meaning, actors in the recruiting industry] are.<p>An example of the former: I now totally understand why recruiters frequently forget elementary facts about individual candidates or jobs.  They&#x27;re often juggling multiples of both at once, at numbers which overwhelm the working memory of almost any human, for weeks at a time.  I had a very nice conversation with (making up facts) Cindy the Pythonist and Sandy the front-end engineer one Tuesday, minutes from each other, and three weeks later had about twenty minutes of the conversation with Sandy go by before realizing that I was giving her advice for Cindy&#x27;s situation, to her amazement.  I do know that React is not made of Python, and I&#x27;ve recently shipped a retail stock trading site built in it, but from Sandy&#x27;s view of the conversation it probably sounded like I was scatterbrained, incompetent, or scatterbrained and incompetent.<p>I thought I could fix this with better notes or a database, but I think it has to be fixed with process improvements, because the amount of task-switching I was doing was making it impossible for me to keep each of the X0 stories I was telling straight.<p>I don&#x27;t anticipate us adopting lying as a business tactic.  Telling the truth seems so much more straightforward.