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Published inCareer ProgrammingIāve Spoken to 500+ Tech Recruiters Since 2019; Hereās the Dark TruthTech recruiters are a necessary evil, but they lack respect and donāt understand software engineering. Itās enough to drive coders madā¦1d ago41d ago4
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