Archive for May, 2008

Memo to recruiters

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

If you’re going to cold call somebody pimping your candidates and rattle off a list of technologies that they are “expert level” in, please at least know what those technologies are. If you don’t know, please be honest enough to just say that you don’t. If you bullshit me on something like that — I got one today that described Lucene as a “hot new programming language” — there’s no way I’m going to trust you on other matters.