Beware of Pinpoint Partners operating in the US. They are all based in London and although they say they have an office in LA and Atlanta they do not have anyone actually based in the United States. Be wary of those asking for who you are interviewing with - this is only so that they can try and get the job on themselves and cut you out of the loop. They have college students doing internships that spend more than half of their day doing solely this.
Also, if you are an experienced Analyst, Associate or junior VP they will send out your resume to clients without your knowledge as a way to try and win interviews before actually doing any real work. They do a run down of candidates who have been sent out the previous week to see where else they can send the candidate to regardless of their level of interest in the firm or position. This is all directed by the owner who regularly implores the consultants to lie about roles, comp and where they are actually based which makes sense given that he is a convicted felon.
Also, they get your email from linkedin which is why they all have so many connections. They will have high school kids come in and spend 40 hours a week connecting to those on LinkedIn that they do not have email addresses for with a message saying they want to let them know about a mandate they are working on.
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Agreed they're garbo
Pinhead Partners are a joke.
Have gotten multiple emails from Pinpoint Partners stating that I'm a top candidate for them and they'd like to set me up for an interview with a "Well known TMT boutique in NYC"
Each time I've replied promptly (one time within 5 minutes) stating that I'm interested, only to get ghosted.
Went through one legit process through them - the 1,000 other emails were a joke
They actually had a legit process?? I'm shocked.... What was the role?
Thanks for the heads up! They’ve been blowing up my cell from a “No Caller ID” number
Same lol...this place is a scam, Pinpoint sounds a lot like Water Street Search.
They are the same...
Thanks guys! Just got one message on linkedin from them.
Just gonna put this here...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-12435833
Lmfao @ him getting called gay and losing his shit. What a scumbag.
I co-sign this. DO NOT ever give them your information, they are consummate scumbags and have multiple email domains so even when you block/unsubscribe from one they continue to blow you up from others. Any recruiter that claims they're running 20+ mandates with 10+ clients at once doesn't actually have a relationship with the clients.
It would be a real shame if someone made a bunch of fake email addresses and spammed Stefan "fuckface" Pillinger with links to this article asking him if he preferred the dick sandwiches or ballsack sundaes he ate in prison
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-1243583…
What’s the business of headhunters like Pinpoint? They can’t be making money from placements…
This is so funny. I’d never really heard of them till a couple weeks ago.
I got an inbound email and said no thanks.
Literally two days later they copy me on an email to DB hr introducing me and saying to contact me to set up a first round interview because I had expressed interest in a job. I was like wtf is going on.
Watch out for these folks you guys!
There is literally no way to remove yourself from their email lists, I'd recommend everyone just block every email that has a Pinpoint email address (same thing applies to Water Street search).
Don't understand the hate for Water Street. HH reached out with 3 oppos, had a process with two, got an offer with one of them. Ran a parallel process with another HH shop, ended up picking the WS offer, and have been happy ever since.
I believe this varies on an individual recruiter basis. Some are ballers, others spam a lot.
Why settle for the negative side of WS (which is run by Pinpoint to my knowledge) when you can work with a legit shop and never have to worry about the BS? Plus, the opportunities that real HHs bring to the table are so much better than firms that PP/WS has access to...
They're just Pinpoint 2.0
Going to report these clowns to the police for harassment
Are there any good recruitment firms?
Tons for PE and HF, basically none for IB (since the intake is big enough that most firms in-house it).
I actually got a ton of interviews through them, including a bulge offer. They used to ghost me but in 2021 they were pretty helpful. Maybe just the state of the hiring market
how do they make money?
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