I'm surprised you don't get constantly spammed by recruiters.
I get 1+ per week, sometimes as many as 5. To me it seems like there's at least a few databases of developer profiles built by recruiting agencies by scraping public info from LinkedIn. Smaller startups then defer to these recruiting agencies to find talent. Mid-size startups have their own recruiters. My profile on LinkedIn is barebones, I only have the company name and my title listed and I still get contacted often.
The emails I get frequently have a sentence such as: "You've been 2+ years at <FAANG> so consider joining our cool startup that needs an Android app to disrupt the basket weaving industry". I'm guessing the DB software has some rules to categorize people into various groups, such as "likely looking for other opportunities after 2 years at FAANG".
There's a clear pattern to these emails. First is initial contact, then a follow up email if there was no response, then one last attempt, usually in the span of a few days.
I don't mind the emails too much. I usually reply to establish an initial contact with the sourcer / recruiter, which lets me build my own database of recruiters which I might send an email to when I decide to jump ship.
Another data point: I tend to receive far more recruiter cold calls in an old email address that I no longer use than in my newer more active email address.
I get 1+ per week, sometimes as many as 5. To me it seems like there's at least a few databases of developer profiles built by recruiting agencies by scraping public info from LinkedIn. Smaller startups then defer to these recruiting agencies to find talent. Mid-size startups have their own recruiters. My profile on LinkedIn is barebones, I only have the company name and my title listed and I still get contacted often.
The emails I get frequently have a sentence such as: "You've been 2+ years at <FAANG> so consider joining our cool startup that needs an Android app to disrupt the basket weaving industry". I'm guessing the DB software has some rules to categorize people into various groups, such as "likely looking for other opportunities after 2 years at FAANG".
There's a clear pattern to these emails. First is initial contact, then a follow up email if there was no response, then one last attempt, usually in the span of a few days.
I don't mind the emails too much. I usually reply to establish an initial contact with the sourcer / recruiter, which lets me build my own database of recruiters which I might send an email to when I decide to jump ship.