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Right??
The more I look at it, it looks like a phising expedition.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Nine out of ten positions advertised for contain spelling mistakes. And no, they don't like it if you point it out 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: And no, they don't like it if you point it out
Even if they're advertising for a proof-reader? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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DUH! That's why they need the proof reader! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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he just emailed me AGAIN!
"Hi Kevin,
Curious if your interested in chatting with me or if you know any anwesome developers who would be interested to learn more about a consulting role?
Cheers!
Kon Kruglyak
Senior Technical Recruiter"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Coder For Hire wrote: anwesome
It seems to be a relatively common mistake - Google has nearly 11,000 results for "anwesome".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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if he kuld spel he myte do bedder
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I had to send this to my mom. She'll love it.
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who ceras? accdornig to a sutdy pfroeermd by cmabirgde uirnvetsiy...
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That looked Norwegian to me.
(in my defense, I'm Swedish...)
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How and why???
The n is nowhere near either the a or the w; that makes it learned behaviour!
I dunno. Kids these days...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think the first name is a clue.
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I always LOL at those job titles followed by some unforgivable writing errors... like "Senior technical recruiter" it's like she is saying:
"I have recruited like 100 people for many job positions, and I think I know how to do it. If they rotate a lot, that's not my problem."
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Sometimes they remind me of this[^].
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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I got so sick of that sh*t I went to a direct job.
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Agreed, but these are all for direct jobs, not contract. Many companies are going the route of using recruiters to weed out the bad apples. The only way in is through them.
The problem is the recruiters often time don't know wtf their talking about, and it's like talking to a 3 year old. So you can lose out on a potential job because of an idiot recruiter.
I once had one ask me "How many years of WPF do you have?". I said about 5. He then said, "And how many years of XAML do you have?"
I proceeded to explain that XAML is part of WPF. He said, "No they're different things". I broke it down for him and even after explain it, he said "Um, ok, let's move on".
What an ultra-maroon!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Coder For Hire wrote: I proceeded to explain that XAML is part of WPF.
It's not quite as stupid as it sounds. XAML is also used in Windows Workflow Foundation, Silverlight, and Windows Store apps; it's not limited to WPF applications.
It's also possible to write WPF applications without using XAML. It's not pretty, easy, or recommended, but it can be done. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sure, but if you know WPF, the know XAML.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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There's no governing body for that kind of work, so any idiot with a telephone can just pick it up and start talking to companies and candidates.
Even the most useless of them will manage to get some roles filled -- and the rates they charge allow them to live very comfortably with not very many placements.
Yes, they're idiots, otherwise they would be doing something real, but it's a field where the bull-headed idiot is most likely to succeed.
Intelligent people would try to do the job well, and so lose out on a lot of the money-for-nothing aspect of it.
Coder For Hire wrote: "You need some serious technical chops for this position"
If you don't tell me how many letters, I'm not even going to try.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Recruiters = dregs' of society. Right after care salesman.
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Coder For Hire wrote: Rock Star"??
wait, you guys don't program on a guitar?!
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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Coder For Hire wrote: if your interested
Tell the recruiter, "If you're grammar was better, I might reconsider."
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I think recruiters should be interviewed even more stringently than potential employees. How can you trust your process to people who can't recognise quality or even know what they're talking about? Think of all the job seekers who dealt with your 3-year old with the bizarre questions and just put the phone down.
Most of my jobs came through friend referrals or direct applications, generally because recruiters just don't know the difference between the different technologies and languages 
Not hard to Google it, Recruiters, just like we do
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One "technical interviewer" asked me (in horribly broken English) several questions like, What is the maximum number of fields you can have in an MS Access table? I told him I had no idea, although I could look it up, but anyone who would purposely build a database table with even 50 to 100 fields would be unlikely to know what they're doing. Apparently you're only a truly skilled programmer if you have memorized all the technical specs for an application. And this turned out to be for a short-term on-site contract position at about $30 per hour for a client 10 states away.
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