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Show HN: A searchable list of VC jobs

41 points by ugwigr 6y ago

andygcook 6y ago
Some feedback: - A filter by location/remote would be helpful. - Right clicking and opening in a new tab doesn't work. I have a feeling that is how many people earnestly looking for a job are going to navigate. Search the list, then analyze individual postings. - Clicking on the modal background doesn't close the modal Couple of questions: - Are the firms at the top the only ones in the dataset, or just the notable ones people might want to filter on? - Would be curious to hear more on how you're sourcing the job listings. Overall, I thought it was well implemented and easy to navigate. Sent it to a friend looking for a job in VC. Nice work. (edit: formatting)
- andygcook 6y ago
  FYI - All the TechStars listings are erroring out when you click through to Greenhouse
- ugwigr 6y ago
  Very useful feedback - Thank you. We run a startup, Thinknum.com, that scrapes all types of data for Hedge funds or business intelligence folks so we get the data from there. Will iterate on feedback and figure out why Techstars links are not working. Thank you for feedback.
Jommi 6y ago
Unfortunately most VC jobs are purely connection based and do not really rely on any sort of skill. Which is of course natural to do industry.
- ugwigr 6y ago
  we are hoping that would change if more VCs start listing their jobs publicly so anyone can apply.
Flowsion 6y ago
Clicking on individual VC firms doesn't show any results. Looks like a bug, as they show up in the 'all' filter.
- ugwigr 6y ago
  will investigate. when I click the VC firms I get links like this http://vcjobs.kgbase.com/?cat=500%20Startups http://vcjobs.kgbase.com/?cat=500%20Startups and they all have jobs.
harrydehal 6y ago
Thanks for putting together this list -- I've been bookmarking VC sites and manually referring to them in my job search which obviously does not scale. Feedback: * Table mode vs card mode would allow one to digest more data * Allow clicks outside the modal to close the modal pop-up * Allow a right-click or specific job posting to be opened in a new window * Scroll to top of new fetched results after pagination P.S. Is the front-end (React) code available somewhere where one could hypothetically contribute?
senojretep356 6y ago
Great work. How long did this take you to build?
- ugwigr 6y ago
  Thank you. it took a couple of hours. I used a nocode tool called kgbase.co. Also I am a cofounder of thinknum.com where we scrape job listings (and other data) for hedge funds, large companies so I set up cron script to pull data from our API into KgBase's API

41 points by ugwigr 6y ago

Some feedback: - A filter by location/remote would be helpful. - Right clicking and opening in a new tab doesn't work. I have a feeling that is how many people earnestly looking for a job are going to navigate. Search the list, then analyze individual postings. - Clicking on the modal background doesn't close the modal Couple of questions: - Are the firms at the top the only ones in the dataset, or just the notable ones people might want to filter on? - Would be curious to hear more on how you're sourcing the job listings. Overall, I thought it was well implemented and easy to navigate. Sent it to a friend looking for a job in VC. Nice work. (edit: formatting)

andygcook 6y ago
FYI - All the TechStars listings are erroring out when you click through to Greenhouse
ugwigr 6y ago
Very useful feedback - Thank you. We run a startup, Thinknum.com, that scrapes all types of data for Hedge funds or business intelligence folks so we get the data from there. Will iterate on feedback and figure out why Techstars links are not working. Thank you for feedback.

Jommi 6y ago

Unfortunately most VC jobs are purely connection based and do not really rely on any sort of skill. Which is of course natural to do industry.

ugwigr 6y ago
we are hoping that would change if more VCs start listing their jobs publicly so anyone can apply.

Flowsion 6y ago

Clicking on individual VC firms doesn't show any results. Looks like a bug, as they show up in the 'all' filter.

ugwigr 6y ago
will investigate. when I click the VC firms I get links like this http://vcjobs.kgbase.com/?cat=500%20Startups http://vcjobs.kgbase.com/?cat=500%20Startups and they all have jobs.

harrydehal 6y ago

Thanks for putting together this list -- I've been bookmarking VC sites and manually referring to them in my job search which obviously does not scale. Feedback: * Table mode vs card mode would allow one to digest more data * Allow clicks outside the modal to close the modal pop-up * Allow a right-click or specific job posting to be opened in a new window * Scroll to top of new fetched results after pagination P.S. Is the front-end (React) code available somewhere where one could hypothetically contribute?

senojretep356 6y ago

Great work. How long did this take you to build?

ugwigr 6y ago
Thank you. it took a couple of hours. I used a nocode tool called kgbase.co. Also I am a cofounder of thinknum.com where we scrape job listings (and other data) for hedge funds, large companies so I set up cron script to pull data from our API into KgBase's API