goldeneye0

goldeneye0 OP t1_izeuyqm wrote

Reply to comment by climberskier in Apparently the MBTA is having a tough time filling their IT positions to the point they're resorting to using a particular type of 3rd party recruiters located out-of-state to fill them by goldeneye0

Well, it was the calls by those recruiters that I was surprised about - and I naturally rejected them since I wasn't going to associate myself with working for the MBTA, not with the current reputation of the MBTA.

Nor would I work with those recruiters. Double whammy there.

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goldeneye0 OP t1_izeqivf wrote

Reply to comment by NoMoLerking in Apparently the MBTA is having a tough time filling their IT positions to the point they're resorting to using a particular type of 3rd party recruiters located out-of-state to fill them by goldeneye0

I had interviewed with them back in the summer of 2014, but decided to pull out of the process because I felt something was off about them and thus the MBTA has been in my blacklist since then and likely won't come off anytime soon.

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goldeneye0 OP t1_izeq7ol wrote

Reply to comment by 3720-To-One in Apparently the MBTA is having a tough time filling their IT positions to the point they're resorting to using a particular type of 3rd party recruiters located out-of-state to fill them by goldeneye0

I am not sure if you know IT recruiting in general, so here is what is not so good about them, namely the big ones.

  1. Many of these Indian recruiters horribly underpay and do not even have the option of things like health insurance (major dealbreaker for me) and PTO (annoying as hell).
  2. Also, there are a number of employers that view being connected to these recruiters as a negative.
  3. A few of these have been known to just harvest information for recruitment/interview fraud and H-1B fraud. I heard most common form of this is to use the body of a submitted resume, but change the identifying info of that user's resume.
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