Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
3-4 years? Longer than that, I'm afraid. Basically, since the proliferation of turn-key recruitment tools (like Taleo), things have been straight-garbage (and why so many messages include "I found your info in our database").
What's really great is the proliferation of recruiting mailing lists. You start noticing that some rando, low-grade recruiter (or, more frequently, recruiting-firm) keeps sending you recruitment emails. Many, the subjects are so awful that you never actually click on the email to see that there's an "unsubscribe" link somewhere in the email ...or if you do open the email and notice such a link, you find yourself internally-raging, "why the hell should I have to opt out of this shit you're slinging??"
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3-4 years? Longer than that, I'm afraid. Basically, since the proliferation of turn-key recruitment tools (like Taleo), things have been straight-garbage (and why so many messages include "I found your info in our database").
What's really great is the proliferation of recruiting mailing lists. You start noticing that some rando, low-grade recruiter (or, more frequently, recruiting-firm) keeps sending you recruitment emails. Many, the subjects are so awful that you never actually click on the email to see that there's an "unsubscribe" link somewhere in the email ...or if you do open the email and notice such a link, you find yourself internally-raging, "why the hell should I have to opt out of this shit you're slinging??"