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Oh god this. I have had recruiters nearly screw up job deals before. I have been enraged by them personally, I have had them enrage the hiring company.
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My latest interaction with a recruiter for a "1 year" contract was as follows. First contact was beginning of July. After 3 weeks I had 2 phone calls with the actual company, 1 background, 1 technical. Recruiter calls me and says the hiring manager likes me congrats I have the job! At this point I am suspicious, like no onsite? Ok maybe for a contract this is possible. They are now working on the "paperwork". Next week recruiter says the company wants to talk to me again. I ask what is up, thought this was a done deal? He says oh they just want to get to know you. The convo is with someone completely new, he asks the same stupid background questions. over the next month I talk to 4 different people from the company, one of them tells me he has no idea why he is talking to me. They literally told him 20 minutes before our conversation that he was supposed to talk to me. Finally I get an offer, the "1 year" offer turns out to be 4 months, but the recruiter explains to me despite what the contract says it is really for a year and I can get hired full time! Also the contract is through this recruiting company, not the actual company I will be working for.
At the same time all this is going down mid August I get an interview for a full time position with the same company, different department. No recruiter this time, just directly through the company. 1 phone conversation, 1 take home assignment, 1 onsite, 48 hours later an offer. The offer is exactly what they said it would be during the interview.
This was the most positive experience I have ever had with a 3rd party recruiter, no sarcasm.