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GitHub Jobs

106 points by pufuwozu 16y ago

thomasfl 16y ago
Seems like a good idea to advertise developer jobs where the hackers are. Keep up the good work githubbers.
iamclovin 16y ago
I was expecting to do it's contextual-job-ad magic without me having to upload a resume, so was disappointed. But a great product nonetheless.
- kneath 16y ago
  It actually will. There's a lot of things we weigh the contextual job ads with. A lot of it is the (public) code you write and the location on your public profile. We do ask that people explicitly opt-in for the ads (available for hire checkbox). One of the decisions we made while trying to weigh connecting jobs with job-hunters and not becoming an advertising company.
  - ichverstehe 16y ago
    But once again you fail at search. Seriously. Good work, otherwise. Far more interesting job postings than anywhere else.
  - pufuwozu 16y ago
    I'm not "available for hire", yet I like to see what companies are offering jobs in my area. Is the checkbox going to be used for more than just showing ads?
    - kneath 16y ago
      Right now, no. In the future, yes. So if you're willing to keep an eye on our blog (we'll warn you before we make this info public) you can check it. Or you can just search on the jobs site itself — http://jobs.github.com http://jobs.github.com
  - iamclovin 16y ago
    Ah ok, yes it did show me an ad just that it wasn't relevant. (PHP Job Ad when I don't have a single PHP repo) But it was a telecommute job so maybe it took into account the fact that I'm located in Singapore.
davidw 16y ago
The search thing says "filter by city, state, zip code or area", which seems a bit US centric. You already have a job listing in Germany: http://jobs.github.com/positions/1dd0bfda-a3c0-11df-9efb-0beb9df2c0da http://jobs.github.com/positions/1dd0bfda-a3c0-11df-9efb-0be... But if you search for 'Germany', it doesn't turn up.
- ichverstehe 16y ago
  Or if you search for "Europe" for that matter.
  - riffraff 16y ago
    interestingly, if you search for a random term,it shows listing "anywhere" randomly: 6 results for asdf http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=asdf http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=a... 3 results for asd http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=asd http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=a... (number of results seems related to input size)
    - pavs 16y ago
      Sounds like someone should fork the job-board and fix this.
    - hartror 16y ago
      Yeah searching for a specific location throws up "Anywhere" listings. If I am searching for jobs in a specific location I want to work in that location. Could be taken both ways so perhaps the ability to disable "Anywhere" jobs?
- defunkt 16y ago
  Sorry about that. It should show up in 'germany' and some others now, like 'rails' in the first search field and 'europe' in the second (location).
moeffju 16y ago
I'm happy this exists. I'm disappointed it is so US-centric again. There are other countries, and a 'filter by state, zip code' does not cut it. (Yes, yes, some European company could - and probably should - create a similar site.)
jacquesm 16y ago
Neat! The title made me think it was job positions open at github, this is far more useful. Not that I'm 'available', but I know some people that are and I'll pass it on. thanks for building this!
patio11 16y ago
Every time someone makes one of these I'm just dumbfounded by how much money there is in it. I mean granted, they're sideline businesses for the three I'm most familiar with, but they are sideline businesses which would pay for almost a full engineering team...
- bd 16y ago
  They kind of have to be sideline businesses. Expensive niche job boards work well only if you already have a valuable community and reputation. They can't be created out of thin air, you need to have "main business" to piggyback upon. Most of the value is created elsewhere, job board just helps with extracting it.
Tichy 16y ago
Needs better filtering options.
rsobers 16y ago
nice clean design, clearly inspired by: http://careers.joelonsoftware.com/Jobs http://careers.joelonsoftware.com/Jobs
- pjhyett 16y ago
  Our design was finalized months ago, imagine our surprise when we saw their redesign :) Good for them for making their job board not hideous, though.
rb2k_ 16y ago
I actually IM'ed HR at this when I first heard about the launch. Seems the liked the idea ( http://jobs.github.com/companies/Acquia http://jobs.github.com/companies/Acquia ) :)
MC27 16y ago
Looks good, just try to keep it free of recruitment agents. I have seen lots of job websites rendered useless once recruitment agents start posting – that is, you have no idea what company you are applying for. Also, could you add flags, like mentioning if there's help for relocation. I am interested in jobs located in nearby countries, but don't want to waste their time if they only want local candidates. I know from friends, that some companies seem to provide lots of support including temporary accommodation, yet barely mention it.
nolite 16y ago
what would be great is a filter to show jobs that allow telecommuting, and what percentage of the job is onsite. Something like at http://jobs.rubynow.com/ http://jobs.rubynow.com/ Makes it enormously more useful for us freelancers
- freetard 16y ago
  Came here to say the same thing, this is a must have. They should allow to pick "remote" or "telecommute" for people posting jobs too. For now I see posts using different wording such as "anywhere", "telecommute" and "remote". This is very important for devs.
thegyppo 16y ago
Any reason (I can't think of) why they might choose such long URL's for the job listings rather than something short like /positions/air-bnb/ruby-developer-needed/? Just makes the URL's a bit more readable especially if we're sharing them about :)
nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
Got an ad that said "Remember The Milk is hiring: Software Engineer (Scala) in Anywhere"... Awkward wording at best...
- SkyMarshal 16y ago
  I saw that too but didn't find it awkward. It was pretty clear to me they meant their organization is distributed like 37Signals or the SO guys. Reading the job post confirms that.
markstahler 16y ago
I was going to say why do we need another one but there has been a surprising number of jobs posted in the short time it has been up. Guess it cant hurt to have another board for smaller type companies.
m0th87 16y ago
If I search for jobs in California, only location-agnostic jobs shows up. But there are clearly openings in the Bay Area, etc.
pchristensen 16y ago
My question is how much difference will there be between job posting here and on other niche boards. I searched in Chicago and everyone on the GitHub jobs is also on the Joel on Software's job board. Maybe the results are better for other places that have more good software jobs. Are there too many job boards chasing the same quality listings?
- tptacek 16y ago
  It's early days; too early to compare Github to JoS. Note that we posted 2 reqs to Github but would never post to JoS; the overlap you noticed is imperfect. (We're hiring in Chicago too, but we have no trouble reaching Chicago candidates and so didn't spend on a third posting).
  - pchristensen 16y ago
    Really? I didn't see Matasano in the results for "Chicago"
    - tptacek 16y ago
      Sorry, I'm writing very badly today. We didn't post an ad for Chicago, even though we're actively hiring there, because we feel like we have pretty good candidate outreach in Chicago already; that, and we wanted to see how Github job ads did.
ecaron 16y ago
The important piece to remember is that this costs companies $300 per posting on sites like Github ($350 for JoS, $400 on 37Signals), but $0 to post on their own site. So companies like Twitter (http://twitter.com/jobs http://twitter.com/jobs) are still going to post on their site first, and are only going to post their hard-to-fill jobs on these boards. So yay for GitHub and 37Signals for offering more alternatives to Dice and Craigslist, but remember that the best jobs still come directly from the employer's website. (Speaking of Twitter, am I the only one who loves their new recruting video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6epAkC9wg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6epAkC9wg)
- look_lookatme 16y ago
  About that video. I was going to write something scathing about it, but that'd be useless. All I'll say is imitating Wes Anderson is tired and boring. Looks like it was fun to make and some people will like it for sure, but I think it pales in comparison to the Etsy recruiting video: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/07/09/etsy-is-hiring/ http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/07/09/etsy-is-hiring/ I hate to bring this up this tired discussion, but is this a NYC vs SF thing? The Etsy video could almost be considered dark and pessimistic, while the Twitter video is full of whimsy and infantilization.
  - seiji 16y ago
    The twitter video looks like it's recruiting for a private high school (join our clubs! have friends! be awesome! we're so wacky!). The etsy video looks like a formalistic Hollywood trailer from the 80s. I don't want to go back to high school or be stuck in the 80s. :(
  - ecaron 16y ago
    How funny! I was going to mention Etsy, also, but their jobs page isn't working right (http://www.etsy.com/jobs/ http://www.etsy.com/jobs/) and I didn't want to start an off-topic thread about them, because I have nothing but awesome things to say regarding Etsy. And I love both videos, but I'm based in Minneapolis. So that might mean that both coasts like 1 so I like them both, or just that people from Minnesota like everything:)
tptacek 16y ago
Ugh. Don't forget to put "NO RECRUITERS" in your job ads.

106 points by pufuwozu 16y ago

Seems like a good idea to advertise developer jobs where the hackers are. Keep up the good work githubbers.

I was expecting to do it's contextual-job-ad magic without me having to upload a resume, so was disappointed. But a great product nonetheless.

kneath 16y ago
It actually will. There's a lot of things we weigh the contextual job ads with. A lot of it is the (public) code you write and the location on your public profile. We do ask that people explicitly opt-in for the ads (available for hire checkbox). One of the decisions we made while trying to weigh connecting jobs with job-hunters and not becoming an advertising company.
- ichverstehe 16y ago
  But once again you fail at search. Seriously. Good work, otherwise. Far more interesting job postings than anywhere else.
- pufuwozu 16y ago
  I'm not "available for hire", yet I like to see what companies are offering jobs in my area. Is the checkbox going to be used for more than just showing ads?
  - kneath 16y ago
    Right now, no. In the future, yes. So if you're willing to keep an eye on our blog (we'll warn you before we make this info public) you can check it. Or you can just search on the jobs site itself — http://jobs.github.com http://jobs.github.com
- iamclovin 16y ago
  Ah ok, yes it did show me an ad just that it wasn't relevant. (PHP Job Ad when I don't have a single PHP repo) But it was a telecommute job so maybe it took into account the fact that I'm located in Singapore.

davidw 16y ago

The search thing says "filter by city, state, zip code or area", which seems a bit US centric. You already have a job listing in Germany: http://jobs.github.com/positions/1dd0bfda-a3c0-11df-9efb-0beb9df2c0da http://jobs.github.com/positions/1dd0bfda-a3c0-11df-9efb-0be... But if you search for 'Germany', it doesn't turn up.

ichverstehe 16y ago
Or if you search for "Europe" for that matter.
- riffraff 16y ago
  interestingly, if you search for a random term,it shows listing "anywhere" randomly: 6 results for asdf http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=asdf http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=a... 3 results for asd http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=asd http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=&location=a... (number of results seems related to input size)
  - pavs 16y ago
    Sounds like someone should fork the job-board and fix this.
  - hartror 16y ago
    Yeah searching for a specific location throws up "Anywhere" listings. If I am searching for jobs in a specific location I want to work in that location. Could be taken both ways so perhaps the ability to disable "Anywhere" jobs?
defunkt 16y ago
Sorry about that. It should show up in 'germany' and some others now, like 'rails' in the first search field and 'europe' in the second (location).

moeffju 16y ago

I'm happy this exists. I'm disappointed it is so US-centric again. There are other countries, and a 'filter by state, zip code' does not cut it. (Yes, yes, some European company could - and probably should - create a similar site.)

jacquesm 16y ago

Neat! The title made me think it was job positions open at github, this is far more useful. Not that I'm 'available', but I know some people that are and I'll pass it on. thanks for building this!

patio11 16y ago

Every time someone makes one of these I'm just dumbfounded by how much money there is in it. I mean granted, they're sideline businesses for the three I'm most familiar with, but they are sideline businesses which would pay for almost a full engineering team...

bd 16y ago
They kind of have to be sideline businesses. Expensive niche job boards work well only if you already have a valuable community and reputation. They can't be created out of thin air, you need to have "main business" to piggyback upon. Most of the value is created elsewhere, job board just helps with extracting it.

Tichy 16y ago

Needs better filtering options.

rsobers 16y ago

nice clean design, clearly inspired by: http://careers.joelonsoftware.com/Jobs http://careers.joelonsoftware.com/Jobs

pjhyett 16y ago
Our design was finalized months ago, imagine our surprise when we saw their redesign :) Good for them for making their job board not hideous, though.

rb2k_ 16y ago

I actually IM'ed HR at this when I first heard about the launch. Seems the liked the idea ( http://jobs.github.com/companies/Acquia http://jobs.github.com/companies/Acquia ) :)

MC27 16y ago

Looks good, just try to keep it free of recruitment agents. I have seen lots of job websites rendered useless once recruitment agents start posting – that is, you have no idea what company you are applying for. Also, could you add flags, like mentioning if there's help for relocation. I am interested in jobs located in nearby countries, but don't want to waste their time if they only want local candidates. I know from friends, that some companies seem to provide lots of support including temporary accommodation, yet barely mention it.

nolite 16y ago

what would be great is a filter to show jobs that allow telecommuting, and what percentage of the job is onsite. Something like at http://jobs.rubynow.com/ http://jobs.rubynow.com/ Makes it enormously more useful for us freelancers

freetard 16y ago
Came here to say the same thing, this is a must have. They should allow to pick "remote" or "telecommute" for people posting jobs too. For now I see posts using different wording such as "anywhere", "telecommute" and "remote". This is very important for devs.

thegyppo 16y ago

Any reason (I can't think of) why they might choose such long URL's for the job listings rather than something short like /positions/air-bnb/ruby-developer-needed/? Just makes the URL's a bit more readable especially if we're sharing them about :)

nuclear_eclipse 16y ago

Got an ad that said "Remember The Milk is hiring: Software Engineer (Scala) in Anywhere"... Awkward wording at best...

SkyMarshal 16y ago
I saw that too but didn't find it awkward. It was pretty clear to me they meant their organization is distributed like 37Signals or the SO guys. Reading the job post confirms that.

markstahler 16y ago

I was going to say why do we need another one but there has been a surprising number of jobs posted in the short time it has been up. Guess it cant hurt to have another board for smaller type companies.

m0th87 16y ago

If I search for jobs in California, only location-agnostic jobs shows up. But there are clearly openings in the Bay Area, etc.

pchristensen 16y ago

My question is how much difference will there be between job posting here and on other niche boards. I searched in Chicago and everyone on the GitHub jobs is also on the Joel on Software's job board. Maybe the results are better for other places that have more good software jobs. Are there too many job boards chasing the same quality listings?

tptacek 16y ago
It's early days; too early to compare Github to JoS. Note that we posted 2 reqs to Github but would never post to JoS; the overlap you noticed is imperfect. (We're hiring in Chicago too, but we have no trouble reaching Chicago candidates and so didn't spend on a third posting).
- pchristensen 16y ago
  Really? I didn't see Matasano in the results for "Chicago"
  - tptacek 16y ago
    Sorry, I'm writing very badly today. We didn't post an ad for Chicago, even though we're actively hiring there, because we feel like we have pretty good candidate outreach in Chicago already; that, and we wanted to see how Github job ads did.

ecaron 16y ago

The important piece to remember is that this costs companies $300 per posting on sites like Github ($350 for JoS, $400 on 37Signals), but $0 to post on their own site. So companies like Twitter (http://twitter.com/jobs http://twitter.com/jobs) are still going to post on their site first, and are only going to post their hard-to-fill jobs on these boards. So yay for GitHub and 37Signals for offering more alternatives to Dice and Craigslist, but remember that the best jobs still come directly from the employer's website. (Speaking of Twitter, am I the only one who loves their new recruting video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6epAkC9wg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6epAkC9wg)

look_lookatme 16y ago
About that video. I was going to write something scathing about it, but that'd be useless. All I'll say is imitating Wes Anderson is tired and boring. Looks like it was fun to make and some people will like it for sure, but I think it pales in comparison to the Etsy recruiting video: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/07/09/etsy-is-hiring/ http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/07/09/etsy-is-hiring/ I hate to bring this up this tired discussion, but is this a NYC vs SF thing? The Etsy video could almost be considered dark and pessimistic, while the Twitter video is full of whimsy and infantilization.
- seiji 16y ago
  The twitter video looks like it's recruiting for a private high school (join our clubs! have friends! be awesome! we're so wacky!). The etsy video looks like a formalistic Hollywood trailer from the 80s. I don't want to go back to high school or be stuck in the 80s. :(
- ecaron 16y ago
  How funny! I was going to mention Etsy, also, but their jobs page isn't working right (http://www.etsy.com/jobs/ http://www.etsy.com/jobs/) and I didn't want to start an off-topic thread about them, because I have nothing but awesome things to say regarding Etsy. And I love both videos, but I'm based in Minneapolis. So that might mean that both coasts like 1 so I like them both, or just that people from Minnesota like everything:)

tptacek 16y ago

Ugh. Don't forget to put "NO RECRUITERS" in your job ads.