They're actually dealing with recruiter spam on the other side. "I see you need people, I have 'great candidates' for the roles that I would love to setup for interviews."

And they said some go to the lengths of calling the mobile number of every engineer at their company. So basically the recruiter is just an extremely persistent salesperson who distracts the entire company in hopes that they'll find a way to sell their product.

When entrepreneurs do that, HN calls it "hustle"

1. The recruiter is not contacting him to help him get a job, he's contacting him to provide candidates and get paid if 42floors hires them. It's the other way around.

2. A recruiter never emails you to offer you a job, he's asking you to apply for some position. There's no guarantee you'll get the job. If he's a good recruiter, he studied your profile and knows you're a good match. That's pretty rare. Most of the time, recruiters are just spamming a list of emails addresses of people working in the general field when just a quick look at the linkedin profile would be enough to see that it would be a very bad match.

>If he's a good recruiter, he studied your profile and knows you're a good match.

Even studying your CV, they can only match up two words. They have no idea that the concepts of RDBMS are SQL pretty synonymous.

These aren't job offers, but offers from recruiters to find candidates for the positions which OP posted. Just clarifying.

Also, the "First World Problem" meme is so tired by now. A problem doesn't need to be as bad as starvation to be worth solving.

Agreed. Yes, it's a problem probably unique to the first world. However, 42Floors is operating in the first world, and it's dumb to dismiss problems simply because they happen in the first world, especially when that's the world you live in.

"Grr, someone posted something that I don't want to read at all but feel like trashing in the comments." -the second most first world problem.

I mean seriously, as everyone as pointed out this post is not about that problem in the first place. If you actually read the post you would see that they made a pretty cool little hack. Try calling the number, (415) 534-6560, for yourself. It sounds surprisingly real.

"people keep emailing me to offer high paying jobs and I have to click archive."-The most first world problem in the history of the universe."

I agree 100%

However, he has the opposite issue, he has job openings and he's getting spam from recruiters proposing candidates.

OTOH, there's one type of recruiter spam that annoys me: the ones that spam with openings where I explicitly say I'm not authorized to work, so, surprise surprise, if you're incompetent to see that, I don't trust you (It's the "no brown M&Ms of recruiting")

That's not what's happening here. The recruiter is contacting 42floors to try to get them to hire their candidates.

This isn't about developers getting recruiter spam.