OGNIB! Recruiters, WTF?

[elfs]

So, here's the weird thing. That "Resume Recruiter Bingo" that I mentioned the other day is even stranger. Two of the requirements are:

• Good knowledge of ASP.Net and C#.
• Ability to work and debug code in Visual Studio 2008.

My resume reads like an open-source, Linux-based history textbook. I contributed the time-to-service feature of the original Apache web server. I've fixed bugs in the Python standard library. I wrote a driver for the Linux kernel, goddammit.

What is making my resume show up on a keyword search looking for someone familiar with Microsoft products?

Is it just because I live in Seattle?

Comments

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking seattle on some contract with a big fat relocation budget attached, and the recruiters were hoping to hire locally but not tell the client and pocket the relocation cash.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I've had that happen too...

Which driver did you write, btw? I wrote the original Dell RAC driver; Device Major 170 "belongs" to me...

I dunno what the idiocy is, but I wish it would stop, or at least pay...

[elfs.livejournal.com]

The gameport driver (not USB) for the Microsoft Sidewinder Flight Sim Joystick without Force Feedback.

Hey, the source code to Freespace II had just been released, and it was the only thing I had, and it was the one Sidewinder missing from the driver table. It's basically a hack of the original driver with the right product codes in the device structure table and the force feedback code null'd out.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

Is it just because I live in Seattle?

That's almost certainly it. You've been hit by a chop-shop in India.