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If LinkedIn is the Amazon/Walmart/AliExpress of job adverts… which it is… it’s insane to think you cannot be the Gucci/Tiffany’s/Ferrari of job advertising and

If LinkedIn is the Amazon/Walmart/AliExpress of job adverts… which it is… it’s insane to think you cannot be the Gucci/Tiffany’s/Ferrari of job advertising and make plenty of money. Just because everyone posts shitty jobs to LinkedIn doesn’t mean that there’s a huge pool of people who want a better product experience and value it. I ghost job offers on LinkedIn because it’s a dumpster fire. I’ve applied to jobs on StackOverflow because I know I’m cutting through the entire bullshit process. Those companies might ghost me, but the point remains that it’s insane to think there’s no value in being a job advertising platform people actually want to apply to adverts on. Recruiters in tech are worse than useless, they don’t know anything and shovel useless candidates into a pipeline that has to develop Byzantine things like white boarding and other performative hoops to filter the junk candidates out. Between Stack Overflow and GitHub I shouldn’t need more than one interview maybe two if it’s a large company where you can’t get everyone relevant into one meeting, and the only point of that meeting should be a basic culture fit appraisal and working out that Im not a dog or three cats in a trench coat pretending to be a human.

tomc1985 5y ago
Tech in general seems to be all about what is good for 90% of users and fuck-all for everyone else. It seems like anything servicing the long-tail anywhere gets squished. In hiring, in user interface design, in features, and in competition. I really, really, really hate this dynamic.
- nine_k 5y ago
  The long tail is well served, as long as it can be done at a premium. A desire to have an electric roadster used to be extremely niche, but Tesla Motors had trouble fulfilling all the orders for their new and rather raw $70k car. If those craving it only had $15k as a rule, that likely won't fly.
nine_k 5y ago
Hmm, not my experience. (I changed jobs last fall.) Some recruiters are useless, but those few I worked with were very good and clueful, and landed me a great job. I met some of them on LinkedIn. I had to filter through some slack, but the efficiency of that was far from negligible. I also applied to a few jobs via SO Jobs; they were reasonably interesting, but none worked, alas. The amount of interest which my SO Jobs profile attracted was an order of magnitude lower than what I received via LinkedIn, and even lower than the number of direct emails from people finding my resume on the internet.

tomc1985 5y ago

Tech in general seems to be all about what is good for 90% of users and fuck-all for everyone else. It seems like anything servicing the long-tail anywhere gets squished. In hiring, in user interface design, in features, and in competition. I really, really, really hate this dynamic.

nine_k 5y ago
The long tail is well served, as long as it can be done at a premium. A desire to have an electric roadster used to be extremely niche, but Tesla Motors had trouble fulfilling all the orders for their new and rather raw $70k car. If those craving it only had $15k as a rule, that likely won't fly.

nine_k 5y ago

Hmm, not my experience. (I changed jobs last fall.) Some recruiters are useless, but those few I worked with were very good and clueful, and landed me a great job. I met some of them on LinkedIn. I had to filter through some slack, but the efficiency of that was far from negligible. I also applied to a few jobs via SO Jobs; they were reasonably interesting, but none worked, alas. The amount of interest which my SO Jobs profile attracted was an order of magnitude lower than what I received via LinkedIn, and even lower than the number of direct emails from people finding my resume on the internet.