I&#x27;m not suggesting the author is necessarily wrong, but I&#x27;ve been in the IT industry long enough to notice that there are more &quot;Recruiters are terrible people!&quot; articles whenever there&#x27;s a boom in tech jobs and people can find their own role. As soon as the market contracts and jobs become hard to find, all the articles stop.<p>I think people&#x27;s view of tech recruiters is a function of the market rather than a de facto truth - recruiters are perceived as bad as the market gets better because people don&#x27;t need them in order to find a new job. That doesn&#x27;t automatically mean recruiters are bad. Come the next downturn they&#x27;ll be useful again. We just need to recognise that.