Ask HN: Job Board Frustrations for Developers

1 pointsdanhodgins6y ago3 comments

What are your biggest frustrations with using job boards and job aggregators both large (Monster, Indeed) and small (Unicorn Hunt, WeWorkRemotely)? What features would your dream job board include?

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planetzero6y ago

I think my biggest issue is dealing with recruiters. 99% of jobs listed have a recruiter on the other end.

I generally make it a habit of only responding if I know it's directly with HR or someone working for the company.

PaulHoule6y ago

Spam.

New York State runs a job board which is filled with crap job entries. Sometimes the job is supposedly in Syracuse, NY but when you talk to the recruiter, the job is in Atlanta.

As a dev I'd rather get jobs in an RSS feed or API and view and filter them with my own system. In fact, for the last two job searches I did, I did just that.

danhodginsOP6y ago

Roll-your-own filtering of RSS or API results is an interesting idea, Paul. Thanks for sharing.

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