has anyone had a problem getting contacted by this recruiter?

Cybercoders has to have the WORST job matching algorithm (and I'm being generous with that word) I have EVER seen.

If your resume contains a sentence like "Experienced with Mac OS X" you will receive jobs for "Mac OS X Software Engineer".

If you even mention PHP, JAVA etc in ANY context whatsoever you'll receive further engineering positions. I can only imagine the deluge of job descriptions you'd receive if you had a multi-disciplined career history and your "keywords" set their system alight.

For a company that uses the words "Cyber" and "Coder" in their name, you would expect they would hire someone who knows something about coding, parsing and matching. Honestly I'd expect more accuracy from a first year CS student told to write a basic shell script using sed or awk.

What makes me laugh though is the "Not a fit for this job? Search all of our open jobs". Talk about open-ended :)

My message to Cybercoders - Hire an experienced programmer, fix you matching scripts and perhaps you'll get some respect. For now, your emails a filed away in "junk jobs".

Stay far away from this sort of incompetency if you expect to find a job.

COO_Semiconductors in San Jose, California said: I doubt the crediblity of CC -- They have reqs all over the JobBoards, ask you to fill out a very detailed online form (Which is a waste of time) and no response. This seems in my opinion to be a bogus org where they collect your data. Seems to be a phony agency. I was also looking at the responses to some of the members from the Cybercoder team -- all the repsonses looked the same as if it was tailor made... Anyways from my perspective i will never deal with this CC.

I concur with almost all the other posts in this thread. However, I would extend it to just about all other recruiting firms you find on sites like Monster and Careerbuilder. Recruiting firms are modern day slave drivers, making a living off the hard work of others, off the simple fact that people have to work. They create a situation in which your compensation stagnates, they just keep selling you off for more money, pocket the extra, and no raise for you. Also, so many job sites have sprung up it makes me sick. Go ahead and fill out all their stupid webforms (if the site even actually works) and what do you get? You find that your phone number has been sold and you start getting strange out-of-state calls from people your not even interested in talking too. All of these sites are a scam.

I agee with all the skepticism. First, there's the name. Does it sound like a recruiter? Second, everyone has common stories about bogus notifications and non-responses. Given their 'elusiveness', etc. something rings an 'identity theft' alarm bell for me.

I work in an HR department, and I keep getting unsolicited resumes from Cybercoders. We are not using a recruiting service, nor do we have any plans too, which I've already communicated to them, but it turns out they have taken our job listing from a website and have been soliciting resumes on our behalf. That is probably the case for the jobs many of you are applying for.

As others have commented, you should avoid these clowns if you are seriously looking for a job as they will impede your chances of getting hired and waste your time.

Cybercoder's modus operandi is to scrape and leech job listings from company websites, monster, dice etc and match them (very poorly) against any listed resume they can get their hands on. They then pitch these resumes to HR departments and try to get a contract in place with the company.

The first question you should ask anyone from Cybercoders is "Do you have a contract in place with the company? Who is your contact person there and what is their phone number so I can verify that."

It is a perfectly legitimate question and if they can't answer it immediately and provide you with that information assume they don't and tell them politely to "go fish".

Sales in Denver, Colorado said: I have applied for several positions I was highly qualified for and got no response...

I am hailing from Portland, Oregon. I am a Licensed Stationary Engineer, with multiple Licenses. I am more than merely qualified to some of the advertised job listings given by, "CyberCoders." I have received responses back from them,... although, they were ALL highly negative, derogatory, and unprofessional. When I attempted to reach them to thank them for their assistance and to inquire as to how I may improve myself,... they were unobtainable,... unapproachable,.... I wonder if they even exist outside of some cold, heartless, automated device.

I've been OVER qualified for jobs and they send me the canned "dear john" email within 48 hours. Then the arses send me "suggestions" to click on that have NOTHING at ALL to do with my background. And they have the audicity to show a photo of a chick that just got her master's at some Ivy league school in basket weaving or something, with a cavalier comment reeking of "I'm all that" because "I work at cybercoders." Hey, clownface! You're not exactly at Google!!
Go to YELP about these baffoons! I'm going to. The economy is hard enough to deal with without phony recruiting firms. Odds are they are just gearing up to sell or make money with adds. Don't click on their site anymore to lower their analytics!!!!!!!!!!!

Cybercoders is a complete scam. They prey on people looking for jobs by advertising positions that are too good to be true. I applied to a job that I was certainly overqualified for based on experience, education, and professional certifications. The job listed a salary range of $50-$60k per year. When asked in their online form what kind of a salary I would like to be paid, I picked the low end of the scale based on the job description and my desire to get the job. I was contacted by a sleepy sounding "agent" who said I was the perfect candidate for the position. She told me that I had an interview on Friday of the same week with the company that was advertising the position. I got no confirmation from her and on Thursday sent her an email asking if the interview was still on. She quickly wrote back and said that the CEO of the company thought that I was asking for too much money based on my experience (not true at all, based on the salary range advertised and my qualifications). The position continues to be advertised every day on several job boards with the same salary range. I am not convinced that this job even exists. I am wondering what the point of this exercise was on their end, and am assuming that they have sold my information to everyone in the phone book. I will expect all sorts of mass marketing and spam in the coming months. Stay away from this company! Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is. Deal with a legitimate agency, or even better, deal directly with companies that are actually hiring.

For what it's worth I met a recruiter who for whatever reason had a guilt attack and told me that most postions advertised do not exist. The firms collect resumes then fish them out to employers in the hope of gainig and employers interest. She told me to ask any recruiter I speak to if the positon is a retained search ora contingency search. If it is a retained search therd is a job to be filled if it is a contingency it's an open cattle call for whcih a positon may not even exist, it's all one big come bet.

It would be great if you could ever get a hold of ANYONE there on the phone.

Press 1 if "You're looking to hire great people" - Voicemail, every time.

If you're looking for a new position, go to our website and apply.

If you're wanting to speak with a recruiter, go to our website and email the recruiter.

If you know the name of the person you are calling, Press 3 - No one by any name is found, generic mailbox.

Press 0 - generic mailbox

Cybercoders are spammers.

If you get those friendly emails about job opportunities, just try to get them to stop. I've canceled the "subscription" a dozen times and I keep getting their stupid emails.

I must have applied to one of their jobs. I also get advertisements for Cisco training and Java training from them.

There are a LOT of places like CC. It's so obvious when they have so many IT jobs for outrageous salaries that they are bogus.

I just wonder how many people are holding my personal information. Spamming my resume out to all these dumb companies has made me paranoid.

Also please comment here on their own video
www.bnet.com/videos/matt-miller-building-a-winning-team/255859

I am (more than) *highly* qualified for the job for which I sent my CV and some idiot told me I wasn't what they were looking for. Ridiculous. This company is a SCAM.

CEO in Grand Prairie, Texas said: I am (more than) *highly* qualified for the job for which I sent my CV and some idiot told me I wasn't what they were looking for. Ridiculous. This company is a SCAM.

You honestly believe you are the most qualified person for the job? You know there are probably thousands of people applying for these positions, right? How ignorant are you?

Dragon in Pompano Beach, Florida said: I get job alerts all the time from them in fields that have nothing to do with my career.
What all the upset people should do is send all of these companies our resumes over and over and over and then when they contact us tell them sorry have no Idea about what your talking about
See how they like it

Good one!

I clicked to login & apply & got this url:

www.cybercoders.com/login.aspx?JobId=KW-JMDEV&ad=CSKim.Wachter&ignore=1

That last attribute -- "&ignore=1" -- just says it all.

There is an interesting post on Rip-off Report about them by a group of hiring managers who put a "sting" on cybercoders.

Ralph,
I dont know if you are going to read this...But I had the same issue with Cybercoders with a Help Desk Manager position in NJ. Thanks to this site I can get valuable information on who to contact when dealing with a rogue recruiter. I like your writ and I am glad someone from Cybercoders wrote back in the forum on who to contact for the abuse. I would like to thank everyone for their comments and gripes. Good luck to all the jobseekers out here...

FWIW, I filled out their app last night for a position in NoCal that I am a very good fit for & had an email from the CC recruiter by 8:30am today stating that my profile & resume have been submitted to the company(whose name he provided). As someone who has probably applied for 100s of jobs that I was very qualified for & never heard a word from them-I think the market is just that tough.

As a follow up, I'm lined up for a phone interview within 18 hours of filling out their app-so I'm pretty damn impressed.

hoapres in San Mateo, California said: Phone interview is just a prelude to a useless "meet and greet"

Well, it's with the hiring company rather than the recruiter, so I'd say otherwise as this point.

Cybercoders is a 100% joke. They have paid robo's posting crap on this and other threads trying to squash the bad posts.

What kind of a company takes your resume just to ignore you so they can farm you and your resume? Total jerks is who:

"I clicked to login & apply & got this url:
www.cybercoders.com/login.aspx?JobId=KW-JMDEV&ad=CSKim.Wachter&ignore=1
That last attribute -- "&ignore=1" -- just says it all."

Cybercoders is nothing but a resume farm full of half wits and fake positions. Save yourself time and money and ignore them. I saw the fake resume post where a guy built a resume that matched the job posting 100%, down to the last dotted i and crossed T. No response, why? Because the position was 100% fake to begin with! They were just farming for resumes. That way they can lie and tell a real company they have 120,000 resumes on file. It's all BS!

Sales in Denver, Colorado said: I have applied for several positions I was highly qualified for and got no response...

I had an excellent experience with Cybercoders. I applied for a position but was contacted within a week or so for a different position that I had several interviews. In the end, I did not get the job but I still speak to the recruited from Cybercoders that responded to me. Its NOT a scam. Perhaps you are not as qualified as you think - there are many qualified applicants in the marketplace. My experience with all recruiters is that if they dont have anything that fits your profile, they will not contact you.