I rather like Atlassian's take on the issue: https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/recruiters

Called the number - surprisingly real sounding, nice execution.

Still, seems like a jerk-move. I can see this backfiring in some way or another.

I hope they're keeping statistics on how long people are on the line before hanging up.

Is that a fixed recording of someone reading out 5 random job descriptions, or are you dynamically getting 5 fresh descriptions and using text-to-voice? Its probably the former, but if not, that is amazing text-to-voice, and I'd love to know where its available!

As much as i agree that recruiters can be annoying getting the right recruitment/recruiter help can be the most amazing leverage tool for your startup and to be honest this comes across really childish. That said recruitment is ripe for disruption.

I admire the execution of this and simultaneously condemn it for its douchebaggery.

If legal, they should make recordings of the reactions.

This is a waste of time and money.

This makes me sad. It's petty vindictiveness and it doesn't help our industry. Rather than accepting that recruiters have wasted his time, and moving on, the author decides to waste even more time to get back at them. And for what? Does anyone think that the recruiter who wasted the author's time is going to reflect deeply on this and change his ways?

Rather than striking back with some ego-stroking revenge, maybe educating the recruiter on why his behavior was shitty might help more? Maybe making a general page that you could easily refer him to that explains why his tactics are disrespectful so that he can learn from this, rather than just having his time wasted? You could also refer other pushy recruiters to that page.

This isn't my company though, so the author is free to do what he wants. I'm wondering if people look at this and think "that's awesome, I can relate! I want to work there," or if they look at this and think "that guy has no problem spending time being mean to people he thinks deserve it, I might stay away."

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