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Discussion on: Why do recruiters hide the name of the company? 🤷‍♂️

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Ross • Edited

They're worried that other recruiters will contact them, get the name then contact the company themselves. Stealing their clients

To be fair, you can usually tell which company it is from the description. My first contact with recruiters is always that I want the name of the company, it's location, it's size and sector. If they're not willing to provide it, I'm not willing to work with them. Recruiters are paid too much (sometimes up to 15% of your salary) for what they do (pass a CV from A to B) and I want to spend as little time with them as possible. They are unpleasant to deal with an unnecessary in tech.