Recruiters lying about salary? Is this just me or is it getting out of control?

This is a classic bait and switch strategy that recruiters use. They have contracts for 3-4 "sexy" 1M+ positions open, so they dangle them in front of you to entice you into a conversation. Once they have you on the phone, they ask you for a resume they can send around to all of their entry-level positions.

IMO these recruiters are a big waste of time.

Ask who their client is. If they bait and switch you, that information gives you the freedom to contact the client and complain.

Throwaway: I make about a million and I’m an IC software engineer. It’s possible. Is it specifically salary or is that TC?

Honestly I have never found recruiters useful, and I've had some incredibly rude responses from them when I have politely declined, or when I have simply ignored them as spam. It's amazing to watch as a series of emails just gets progressively more aggressive and argumentative, as though they believe that they are entitled to my time.

If you send an unsolicited recruitment email you haven't earned a response.

Of course they always hide who's they're recruiting for (except for one time with a FB recruiter who got passive aggressive with my not responding - this is after I'd responded to multiple prior recruiters that I would literally never work there - where honestly I feel I should have tried to find a contact at FB to forward it to.

[edit: I also realize the "up to X" is bullshit, and should reply asking what the minimum is]

Please provide more background.. If you are recruited for the CEO of one of the FAANG, 1 million salary seems too low.

Nigerian princes stepping up their game huh?

Ask them for a copy of the req before providing your resume.

Have never heard that before. I would probably respond that I can work up to 40 hours a week depending on where the salary lands.

Curious—- have you checked out this recruiters individual profile and his firm? Do they look remotely legit?

There are certainly some eye-popping compensation packages out there these days.

Basic rule of thumb: recruiting at the $1M level requires a certain finesse and sophistication to engage high caliber prospective talent.

Coming at me cold with a $1M tease, just sounds bogus.

TBH probably better if their lies are getting unbelievable. Makes it easier to separate the wheat from the chaff!

The worst new trend I've seen is a "soft offer" prior to the final round interview. These are also usually way out of alignment with the role / other teams. Not willing to name and shame here - but it's annoying and a waste of time.

"Up to" is upper limit on what they claim you could potentially make - a meaningless term. You can make up to $500 million dollars selling water filters in an MLM marketing scheme if only you sell 6 billion of them.

WTF?

Suuure, "up to" one million, but over what time period? Technically $100k/year for 10 years is one million.

My salary is up to one million dollars.

Well, it's at the high end of the range, anyway.

By the way, I define high as being in the top 90%.

In my experience, recruiters (not all of them but some) lie about EVERYTHING. Why not the money?

I receive this kind of offers from linkedin nearly daily. I do not even bother to look.

Recruiters lying?

In other news, water is wet so long as bears shit in the woods.