Ask HN: Job Board Frustrations for Developers

by danhodgins on 2/5/2020, 8:16:35 PM with 3 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?

  • by planetzero on 2/5/2020, 8:44:20 PM

    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.

  • by PaulHoule on 2/5/2020, 8:23:14 PM

    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.