I really dislike "mystery meat employer" recruiter contacts. Just like charities, if I can't research it myself I'm not even a tiny bit interested.
I wonder why this is, is it to prevent the employer and potential employee cutting out the middle man? I can say with great confidence that I have never responded to any email/LinkedIn contact where the company name is not mentioned.
I had one nebulous recruiter call my company's front desk and try to get me consider taking a position with his talent pool after I ignored his message on LinkedIn.
To my limited understanding, the way the recruiting market works is recruiters build up a bank of talent they can submit for client jobs and they get a % commission of the meat err recruit's base salary as compensation. Ergo, the incentive is to build as big a stable of developers as possible that you can keep submitting for jobs. I personally ignore all the meat market recruiters on LinkedIn, it just gets absurd after a while.
I wonder why this is, is it to prevent the employer and potential employee cutting out the middle man? I can say with great confidence that I have never responded to any email/LinkedIn contact where the company name is not mentioned.