I like to believe StackOverflow has a financial incentive to solve this issue with their jobs site. It's my impression that there's a high barrier to being acce

I like to believe StackOverflow has a financial incentive to solve this issue with their jobs site. It's my impression that there's a high barrier to being accepted as part of the community for new users, who I would expect to be on average younger developers more interested in finding a new job. These are users who I imagine SO would like to be users of their revenue-generating jobs platform. For the last 6 months, my company used both Indeed and SO for recruiting. I much prefer SO and expected the quality of candidates would blow away Indeed. And generally there was less chaff on SO, but there were also less applicants in total and in the end we hired about equally off both platforms. Indeed proved much cheaper. The connection the SO Q&A site and the SO jobs site occurred to me after I created a new profile for the SO Jobs (technically, Talent) platform and then posted a couple questions as a new user, an exercise I've practiced before. And as before, even though I am an experienced user who knows how to write a quality question, my questions were immediately downvoted almost reflexively by other users. It was enough to almost turn me off the project. I tried to explain this to our SO sales rep and he said that they were aware of the problem and trying to address it. I suppose this code is what he was referring to. My contract recently expired and my company decided not to renew at this time.