[justaguyhere]

This makes me soooooooo mad. Instead of LAMP, I spelled out Linux/Apache... etc in my resume. One recruiter spent 10 minutes arguing with me that LAMP is not the same as Linux...

Why do they deserve 50% of the billing rate (they can't even bother spending 30 seconds to google and note down what these terms mean)? Is their service that valuable? Heck, compared to them even the freelance websites that take 20% (Fiverr etc) seem like saints.

Another recruiter changed my resume without my knowledge. I found out during the interview. All kinds of shady stuff going on with these people.

[jen20]

Every time I encounter a shady recruitment agency (or their practices) I'm reminded of this blog post [1], although this is an archived version rather than the original.

In the UK, everyone even close to tech-adjacent has similar stories.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/CumpsD/696599d1bd4cd472a056586967293...

[sokoloff]

> One recruiter spent 10 minutes arguing with me that LAMP is not the same as Linux

8 of those minutes are partly/mostly on you. (I’d give ‘em 1-2 minutes and then just hang up.)