Ask HN: Why Companies Do Not Provide RSS Feeds of Job Openings

by quaintdev on 5/30/2025, 7:50:48 AM with 5 comments
It seems like a no brainer for them and yet very few companies actually provide one. I have found only two which do so: Canonical and Oxide.

Imagine applicants subscribing to RSS feeds of companies they are interested in. No more job boards or sifting through 100s of listing to find the one. I can configure my RSS reader to filter out jobs I'm not interested in. I can set up alerts for jobs requiring specific skills. The possibilities are endless.

  • by palata on 5/30/2025, 8:12:51 AM

    Hypotheses:

    1. They don't know about RSS. Websites are often just something like WordPress, those who manage them don't actually "build" them.

    2. They want to track the visitors. I think it's completely useless, but they want to know who clicks where and how many people open any particular job offer. There is no tracking with RSS.

    3. Why would they care about the user experience? People should feel lucky to apply to their 15-interviews process.

  • by m-localhost on 5/31/2025, 2:19:55 PM

    I put that on our website, since I love RSS. We are not a tech company, though, so none of the potential applicants use it. I think some scraper/job boards consume it, but that's it. I built it mainly for fun and to signal virtue :)

  • by ungreased0675 on 5/30/2025, 8:29:40 AM

    Because if HR people knew how to do that, they wouldn’t work in HR.

  • by vouaobrasil on 5/30/2025, 8:51:10 AM

    Seems like you'd be one of among dozens who would actually do that.