I'm a software engineer. I used the "Who's Hiring" monthly thread on Hacker News. To be perfectly honest, it's the best "job board" I've ever used for tech job

I'm a software engineer. I used the "Who's Hiring" monthly thread on Hacker News. To be perfectly honest, it's the best "job board" I've ever used for tech jobs. In my case, it was during Covid. Unemployment benefits were good enough that I wasn't eating into my savings. Every month, I would spend a few hours going through the thread, narrow it down to about 10-15 good postings, and see where it went. Hiring was also slow at the time. The thing that I really liked about the job board here is that, almost every time, my initial contact was with a hiring manager or someone who'd I'd work very closely with. The job descriptions also get to the point quickly, unlike most job boards where the job description is 1-2 pages of 80% fluff. For awhile I had the "open for work" flag on my LinkedIn profile. I got a lot of great outreaches that way, (and recently declined a very good offer,) but they tend to be bigger companies. (FWIW: Any time someone reaches out to me on LinkedIn with a vague "We might have matches for you, sign up and we might follow up with you" request, I flag them as SPAM.)