Edit: Why did someone down vote me for asking a question? Don't be so goddam sensitive.
Doesn't make the job search harder within the financial industry. In my experience the majority people are recruited/courted extensively for positions in the industry, hence it's not quite a "job search" in the majority of the cases.
On the other hand, if they could choose other titles, on the lines of "lead guitar" they may have trouble with job search. People generally seem to be very particular about industry-based titles.
It's getting to the point now where people are downvoting on HN not just bad or off-topic posts, or posts they disagree with (which is already pretty close to ridiculous), but even just posts they don't think they themselves would have taken the time to write out. I'm pretty sure this post will be downvoted to a very light grey, for example.
It's gotten to the point where if I see a greyed-out post I just automatically give it an upvote. The environment around here has gotten so toxic that it is more often the case that such posts are better than average anyway.
Kinda ironic considering the subject at hand. FWIW, to answer your question, reddit with a good list of subscribed subreddits, still does the trick IMO. Good enough, anyway.
Recruiters encouraged me to change it and/or edited my resume to read "Software Engineer" and then "Senior Software Engineer."
