Comment Re:oh boy! (Score 2, Interesting) 253
Entirely too many "headhunters" are eager to get a warm body into a gig so they can get billable hours or get their percentage of the annual salary as a commission/finders-fee for the job in question.
Then there's hiring managers willing to do the same thing to get *someone* in to help them out, regardless because even an ill-fitting posting will move the project along quicker than nobody being there in many cases.
Heh...I've seen both. I will work for the latter, in many cases. One comes to mind, that I won't mention, who'd be on that list. I could do both what he had me doing and the embedded Linux low-level stuff. But...unfortunately, the upper management has this notion that they're better off with Offshored stuff. (Never mind that I had a good time and swiftly un-did the mess they made- and would happily keep it from happening again if they'd hire me and two other devs and not offshore the stuff...)