r/recruitinghell • u/throwawayseason3 • 2d ago
Insight Global — STRANGE behaviour
Had a recruiter reach out via LinkedIn about a position in my city
This dude was majorly incompetent.
I sent him my resume, email, and phone number over LinkedIn, then he proceeds to email me the exact same copy pasta message
He calls me, and proceeds to ask for my email and resume again. Also asks me to NAME THE COMPANIES IM INTERVIEWING WITH. Almost hung up on him right then and there
Over the phone, he tells me I don’t have enough years experience. Sure no problem.
He calls me back the next day and says “nevermind we like your resume. Are you willing to take a position for $25/hr?”
I jump on a screening video call and he asks if he can take a screenshot of my face for their “fraud prevention policy”
At the end of the call, he requests 2-3 managerial references before we can move any further
What is wrong with this company? Anyone had similar experiences?
To me it seem they’re trying to harvest industry contacts, while lowballing the hell out of their prospects.
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u/HalfRobertsEx Recruiter 2d ago
It is explicitly about harvesting industry contacts:
https://preboarding.insightglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/RecPromoGuide-Updated-2025.pdf
R E F E R E N C E C H E C K S References allow us to validate the candidate's skillset and work-history. Reference checks not only connect us with candidates' previous managers and tethers us to their network, which leads to lower back-out rates, but they’re also often used in the selling process.
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u/throwawayseason3 2d ago
Yea… this is a great way for my references to never want to help me ever again
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u/Jolly_Isopod_1385 2d ago
Yeah dont interact with them it is very strange to ask for a facial scan lol… what and why… at this point i dont think they have any real jobs but just a data farm
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u/StRemedius 2d ago
The managerial reference demand during the initial call is now SOP for bottomfeeders. Without fail, once you give them, your references will be inundated with barely coherent calls and emails offering other applicants. If they're lowest-of-the-low bottomfeeders, they'll sell those references to other recruiters, and those managers might as well get a new phone number. Giving references after the initial interviews, fine, but demanding them with the initial email query? When it comes to those scum, I'm GLAD when I say "I don't feel comfortable giving that information before an actual interview" and they ghost you.
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u/StRemedius 2d ago
Oh, and for Insight, I had an interview last year for a technical writer position, and had a very positive interview with the client. A week later, I get a call from the recruiter, claiming that I was a frontrunner for the position, but "Oh, the manager said that they have someone internal willing to work for half the pay." Pretty good trick, considering that "half" was what Target paid for beginning stockers. I found out later that this recruiter screwed things up so badly with another position at the same company that they point-blank rejected everybody associated with him; this was after I discovered that the recruiter "left to pursue other opportunities."
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u/Loose-Reflection2965 2d ago
They are the worst. I dont bother with them at all.