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This is clearly a strongly negative experience for one individual, but probably not a shocking story.

But why did this up-voted to the frontpage in a matter of minutes? It's currently in the top 10, after 40 minutes.

In my experience, the title is a fairly common sentiment amongst software engineers...until they join in on hiring responsibilities for their team(s), and then the relative value of recruiters becomes rapidly apparent.

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I was on the hiring side before I had my first encounter with a recruiter. They're worthless. Floods of bad candidates, almost never anything worth pursuing. Promising candidates come almost exclusively through some form of contact that bypasses any form of in-house or external recruiter. Being-hired experience is the exact mirror: Contacted constantly about positions utterly unsuited for me, and good matches only produce interviews if the recruiters are bypassed.

Recruiters have negative value. They are parasites.

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