Recruiter accidently emailed me her secret internal selection guidelines 👀

🚨 𝗔 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆’𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮. 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿: 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. 👀

A leaked software engineering recruiter selection guideline is going viral. Founder and ex-L7 Facebook engineer said he believes strongly that it’s real and that “top tier CS schools are the primary path to early career jobs [in software]”!

Here’s what they used to secretly filter people out:
🎓 Ivy League only
🚫 No bootcamp grads
🏢 Must’ve worked at “Tier 1” tech companies
🛑 Exclude anyone from certain recruiting agencies
🗑️ Resumes over 1 page? Auto-reject.

None of this was public.
All of it used quietly—behind the scenes—to ghost or reject people. 😤

So what now?

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Read the original Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/1jhitoc/recruiter_accidently_emailed_me_her_secret

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