Comment by swiftcoder
21 days ago
I don't think anyone is obligated to go through the entire interview process just so they can decline the offer.
Yes, you'd waste a few hours of some expensive engineers' time, and more hours of relatively cheap recruiter time - but sending the recruiter a big ol' fuck you on first contact gets the message across just fine.
not sure if recruiters will give a shit. they cast really wide, low-effort nets. until you get to offer stage you're a nobody, and to get to offer you usually have to expend non-trival time/effort.
You'd be surprised: Next time a recruiter from some big tech corp sends you an e-mail try explaining why you don't want to join them.
I've had a recruiter try to convince me that working for Facebook isn't all that bad.
But I'm not sure how much of this sentiment that they hear from people is actually routed to the companies themselves.