The responses are my personal impressions, communicated to my Microsoft recruiter in the context of a private 1:1 conversation. A few days after I sent my response to the recruiter, I saw an anonymized version floating around and being discussed inside Microsoft. I hadn’t realized at the time that I wrote it that it would be distributed widely within Microsoft so that was a bit of a shock.

sour grapes shared with recruiter -> pwnage
2013-11-18: an acquaintance got the following recruiter spam. with skills like that, no wonder most people can be replaced with a markov chain.

How are you doing today!! Here’s the Contractual Direct Client Requirement for you. Hope you’ll go through this and revert back to me! Looking forward.. It would be very great help for me to fill this position by referring your friends and colleagues who might be interested on this opportunity.

Keep your eyes open for a special blessing from God today

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