Comment by keiferski
3 days ago
I've spent a lot of my career marketing to developers, and spamming their GitHub account might be top 1 or 2 worst marketing tactics you can use.
Cold emailing rarely works by itself. Cold emailing developers via emails you pulled from their GitHub accounts? At that point, you're actively harming your brand, and may as well just send them spam diet pill ads.
If someone took the time to look through my GitHub contributions then pitched me with a job relevant to that work I would absolutely consider them. That's exactly the kind of recruiter I would like to work with.
If it's obviously just a bot scraping emails and sending generic job requests, that's very different.
> If it's obviously just a bot scraping emails and sending generic job requests, that's very different.
It's not even that nice. They scrape emails and send cold calls to try to get you to purchase their services.
Yeah this - I got one of these emails someone sniffing around my GitHub not that long ago and it wasn't immediately obvious that it was a scammy recruiter, so I responded to sound out if they were actually interested in one of my projects. Got the same generic response about let's work together on something so I didn't respond.
Yeah I mean as a marketing tactic to sell your product. An employer / recruiter offering you work this way is different.
Find everyone who starred this repo and did a PR against these 10 repos is within reach of all marketers now. I just told them how.
Wait why? That seems like the high effort and high specificity thing that I'd love to get.
You searched for people who do what you need to have done, found me, looked at what I've worked on and determined I'd be a good fit and you reached out? That's the number one way to get me to want to work for you.
> You searched for people who do what you need to have done, found me, looked at what I've worked on and determined I'd be a good fit and you reached out? That's the number one way to get me to want to work for you.
No, their email templating tool finds an old throwaway repo you did 6 years ago, templates its name into a form email, and invites you to join a cattle call to be whiteboarded along with the rest of the shmucks
"Work for you"? They ain't hiring my friend, they are spamming their product to your inbox, not sending a career opportunity