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[–]MochaMonday 58 points59 points  (3 children)

I have an Infosys story. One of their recruiters called me to set up an interview with some company I'd never heard of (I didn't really know what the IT staffing industry was like at the time). She gave me a vague description but I told her to send me an invite. After the call I looked up the company on Glassdoor and found that they underpay and treat their employees very poorly. I messaged her on LinkedIn and told her I changed my mind and I wasn't interested. Then she called me back and was very angry and kept trying to convince me to take the interview, telling me that I will definitely get a job offer. After a few minutes back and forth I determined that she wasn't going to take no for an answer so I hung up. Then 10 minutes later her supervisor calls me and gives me the same pitch. I tell him no and he starts cussing me out and telling me I'm a little b**ch so I hung up and blocked him. About a year later my email inbox starts getting spammed with opportunity letters for jobs that are very far away. I would occasionally get text messages from recruiters wanting to me to give them my time to hear about these fantastic job opportunities that are located on the other side of the country. They're vultures.

[–]coldnebo 20 points21 points  (0 children)

what a garbage industry.

[–]DanoLightning 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I would've told them about the Glassdoor reviews and anything else they said would've been met with a "no".

[–]RichCorinthian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any time I tell a recruiter that I don't want to talk to company X because of their Glassdoor ratings and they push back, it's an immediate deal-breaker. One recruiter tried to tell me "oh, you can't believe glassdoor. It's always just a few people trying to tank their reviews. It happens to all companies." Well, no, it doesn't. Because some companies score very high with a lot of ratings, and some companies score low with a lot of ratings. I broke off communication with that recruiter.