I'm really sorry about that. If you send me an email with your name and contact information, I can look into what happened.
Every day I work with incredibly smart, driven, and talented engineers. Treating such valuable individuals "like cattle" is absurd - I go to bat for the engineers on my team every single day I'm at work.
Yes, well, the behavior noted here was toward people who weren't on anyone's team, were they?
That said, hiring well is really hard, especially setting the compensation structure to avoid creating perverse incentives which can result in issues just like these.
Tangentially, as a general rule (below the executive level), external recruiters < in-house recruiters < team members < hiring managers. On average anyway, as there are plenty of individual exceptions either way.
Every day I work with incredibly smart, driven, and talented engineers. Treating such valuable individuals "like cattle" is absurd - I go to bat for the engineers on my team every single day I'm at work.