The problem is that in recruiting, it&#x27;s not &quot;a few jerks&quot;. It&#x27;s 99.99% utterly incompetent recent business grads. The 00.01% of recruiters that are labeled &quot;competent&quot; are actually still pretty bad, but they at least know that you won&#x27;t find 15 years of Go experience and can at least half-tell when someone is BSing (perhaps because they actually spent a small amount of time coding themselves).<p>Out of the dozens of recruiters I&#x27;ve dealt with over my career, there was only one who was semi-competent. The article makes it sound like it&#x27;s even worse across the pond; instead of incompetent doofuses, the tech recruitment industry populated by out-and-out fraudsters. I&#x27;ve met a few of those here in the US, but they&#x27;re by no means the majority. Though I have noticed a trend among tech recruiters in the US that has really exploded in the last few years: hire traditionally attractive young women and call them &quot;tech recruiters&quot;. The more recently they&#x27;ve departed their cheerleading squad, the better. This seems to be the primary qualification at a lot of US tech recruiting firms recently.<p>Probably the reason the competence of recruiters is so low is because almost anyone with the skills necessary to discern a good coder from a bad one can probably at least kinda code himself, and would rather do that than sales.