>If you can trust your recruiter lol.
>(like a realtor or banker) rofl. like many people in the service industry recruiters (and realtors, investment bankers) are typically referred to as "coin-operated whores" for a reason, and they usually don't know jack about the company they are working for except for the boilerplate marketing spiel and talking points that they briefed on. however, recruiters are aligned in one way with the candidate - they want your salary to be huge. a typical recruiting fee is about 20% of the first year compensation of a candidate, so they are motivated to convince the employer that you are worth a lot of money so they get a bigger payday from the placement. in places where equity is understood and valued (not so much in utah, but this getting better i think) recruiters often ask for stock equal to 20% of the first year vesting of the candidate. but yeah, checking up on a company is a great idea and posting to a random list like plug and asking for offlist replies is probably a safe thing to do, but if your job search is on the down low, then maybe not. disclaimer - i've used recruiters in the past, and will continue to use them in the future because they can often be an important part of an overall strategy to build a good team. :-p /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
