He&#x27;s obviously very hyperbolic, but when you leave the sphere of elite IT (Google&#x2F;Facebook) and head into the folks who are in other geographic locations (and not willing to move to tech hotspots) suddenly the skills in demand and the positions available become overwhelmingly large enterprise type IT jobs.<p>The recruiters who are working for these companies are, to some extent, as the author describes.  The real reason the industry is so slimy on that end is because enterprise companies are too old fashioned to view technology workers as people who deserve to be paid salaries on par or exceeding middle managers.  Therefore, the salaries simply aren&#x27;t high enough to attract talent beyond H1B indentures and fakers who are horribly unproductive.  This creates an IT department that isn&#x27;t very good or effective, and thus isn&#x27;t thought of as deserving high pay.  Never mind that the C-level management at large, established companies is, for the most part, hopelessly disconnected from what it takes to have an effective technology capability at a company.  If you don&#x27;t agree with me on this, then ask yourself why SAP and Oracle continue to make so much money selling huge software implementations that are known to never work and always go over budget.