I will admit I did not make it through this entire article, but it really did not ring true to me at all--just sounded like an unsupported, hostile, angry rant.<p>&gt;&gt; “Fucked if we care” think the recruiters, “now grovel and be exploited”.
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&gt;&gt; You’re meat to them, a resource to be packaged and sold and exploited.<p>Who&#x27;s being exploited here? I think he&#x27;s implying the programmers, but as someone who left academia for industry, I do not at all share that sentiment. When I think &quot;exploited&quot; I think of diamond miners in Africa or sex workers in Southeast Asia. I got my first job at a start-up through a recruiter, gained a ton of skills, later left, and now I have a very well-paying job at a place I love. People with technical skills are highly sought-after, and do quite well in my experience, whether or not they go through recruiters.<p>If a comment as irate, mean-spirited, and unsubstantiated as this blog post appeared in HN, it would get down-voted into oblivion.