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Job postings on Indeed doubly so. If you're looking for jobs on Indeed I'm confused as to what you're doing. I found nothing useful there when looking in Febru

Job postings on Indeed doubly so. If you're looking for jobs on Indeed I'm confused as to what you're doing. I found nothing useful there when looking in February, meanwhile LinkedIn was incredibly useful. Did about 15 interviews and accepted an offer. No issues. Indeed never had a single attractive company to apply to in that time: It was all consulting.

wyclif 4y ago
Can confirm. I don't think I've been shown a single authentic job posting on Indeed. It's mostly low-quality consulting filler.
- azemetre 4y ago
  Man I thought it was just me, but yeah Indeed is truly terrible. My only way of getting interviews has been linkedin (both applying to and getting messaged) or directly applying on company's websites thus far in my career. Are there any other job boards that are actually authentic?
  - irrational 4y ago
    Stackoverflow used to have a really good job board that we got great candidates from. I was really sad to see it go away.
    - bbbnnnmmmkjkj 4y ago
      Agree with this. Forgot they removed the board as it’s been kind of a while now. One thing I didn’t really like was having your stack overflow profile be relevant in hiring decisions - probably good for some/many devs though
  - kyawzazaw 4y ago
    good results with otta.com
  - MichaelRo 4y ago
    I heard GlassDoor also has jobs but I never used them, only LinkedIn and Indeed (I'm EU-based). Never got hired through Indeed but they have a few jobs that aren't on LinkedIn. Also, is it me not knowing to use Indeed or does their interface not support the most basic thing? EU-wide search. With LinkedIn I type "European Union" in the location box, shows me all EU. Indeed, I have to select every individual country, it's much more limiting and I'm getting bored fast. Sure, I can select "United States" but dudes, having EU countries listed individually with no option of doing a whole area search is like having to manually search "Arkansas" or "Oklahoma" jobs in the US, it's retarded and myopic to say the least.
  - Yoric 4y ago
    EU-based dev here. Recently, I've been using: - Hired (1 lead, did match my profile but not what I wanted to do); - HiredSweet (0 leads); - WellFound (a few interesting leads); - Hacker News Who's Hiring (a few interesting leads); - Hacker News Who Wants to be Hired (a few interesting leads); - LinkedIn applying (a few interesting leads); - LinkedIn messaged (dozens of leads); - Reddit /r/rust (a few interesting leads).
- SoftTalker 4y ago
  I can’t figure out why there seems to be a new heavily advertised jobs/employment site every couple of years. The first one I remember was monster.com. Now it’s Indeed. There have been a number of others. Why do these sites spring up, seem to be everywhere, and then get replaced after a couple of years?
  - zeckalpha 4y ago
    Indeed has been around since 2004, Monster since 1999.
  - mech422 4y ago
    Heh - way back yonder - Dice.com used to be Awesome!
zrobotics 4y ago
It may be a location thing, but in the upper midwest I see just absolute garbage on LinkedIn and just mostly garbage on Indeed. Both are full of consultancy garbage, but LinkedIn refuses to show me local jobs. I suspect they don't want to return a mostly empty search page, so they fill the results with Accenture consulting listing that are supposedly for my smallish metro. Indeed at least shows me local listing. Although my situation might be a hit niche for this board, since I'm in a small area and I'm not interested in remote work for mental health reasons. But odd that a geography change causes such a complete reversal of which site is better. LinkedIn is still worth it for the professional network features, but honestly I kinda would prefer the Craigslist interface since that is actually searchable.
- Yoric 4y ago
  I'm a tech lead in France with a detailed resume and LinkedIn sometimes shows me positions as a nurse in the US. No clue how their algorithm works, but I'm not highly confident in its quality :)
kadoban 4y ago
My last search, Indeed was great. They did free, decent resume consultation with me, and assigned me some rando to point out some good listings to apply for here and there (that surprisingly were generally well curated). Got several interviews and a job in short order. (no affiliation, they just were surprisingly helpful... I still don't know why, my situation at the time did not make me an amazing candidate or anything)
- vasco 4y ago
  > I still don't know why It paid for this ad and others you may have spread around recalling the situation.
  - kadoban 4y ago
    Maybe. If so, that's the _one_ type of marketing that I'll happily support, just doing a good job and waiting for your customers to tell people.
0xNOTVALID 4y ago
I’ve noticed that many applicants for positions at my company from Indeed.com are entirely unqualified. Often truck drivers, etc. for a software engineering role and the resume will have no engineering related experience. I’ve been told that many of these applicants are people applying to jobs they have no hopes of getting interviewed for. In many states you must prove you are actively looking for a job to collect unemployment benefits.

wyclif 4y ago

Can confirm. I don't think I've been shown a single authentic job posting on Indeed. It's mostly low-quality consulting filler.

azemetre 4y ago
Man I thought it was just me, but yeah Indeed is truly terrible. My only way of getting interviews has been linkedin (both applying to and getting messaged) or directly applying on company's websites thus far in my career. Are there any other job boards that are actually authentic?
- irrational 4y ago
  Stackoverflow used to have a really good job board that we got great candidates from. I was really sad to see it go away.
  - bbbnnnmmmkjkj 4y ago
    Agree with this. Forgot they removed the board as it’s been kind of a while now. One thing I didn’t really like was having your stack overflow profile be relevant in hiring decisions - probably good for some/many devs though
- kyawzazaw 4y ago
  good results with otta.com
- MichaelRo 4y ago
  I heard GlassDoor also has jobs but I never used them, only LinkedIn and Indeed (I'm EU-based). Never got hired through Indeed but they have a few jobs that aren't on LinkedIn. Also, is it me not knowing to use Indeed or does their interface not support the most basic thing? EU-wide search. With LinkedIn I type "European Union" in the location box, shows me all EU. Indeed, I have to select every individual country, it's much more limiting and I'm getting bored fast. Sure, I can select "United States" but dudes, having EU countries listed individually with no option of doing a whole area search is like having to manually search "Arkansas" or "Oklahoma" jobs in the US, it's retarded and myopic to say the least.
- Yoric 4y ago
  EU-based dev here. Recently, I've been using: - Hired (1 lead, did match my profile but not what I wanted to do); - HiredSweet (0 leads); - WellFound (a few interesting leads); - Hacker News Who's Hiring (a few interesting leads); - Hacker News Who Wants to be Hired (a few interesting leads); - LinkedIn applying (a few interesting leads); - LinkedIn messaged (dozens of leads); - Reddit /r/rust (a few interesting leads).
SoftTalker 4y ago
I can’t figure out why there seems to be a new heavily advertised jobs/employment site every couple of years. The first one I remember was monster.com. Now it’s Indeed. There have been a number of others. Why do these sites spring up, seem to be everywhere, and then get replaced after a couple of years?
- zeckalpha 4y ago
  Indeed has been around since 2004, Monster since 1999.
- mech422 4y ago
  Heh - way back yonder - Dice.com used to be Awesome!

zrobotics 4y ago

It may be a location thing, but in the upper midwest I see just absolute garbage on LinkedIn and just mostly garbage on Indeed. Both are full of consultancy garbage, but LinkedIn refuses to show me local jobs. I suspect they don't want to return a mostly empty search page, so they fill the results with Accenture consulting listing that are supposedly for my smallish metro. Indeed at least shows me local listing. Although my situation might be a hit niche for this board, since I'm in a small area and I'm not interested in remote work for mental health reasons. But odd that a geography change causes such a complete reversal of which site is better. LinkedIn is still worth it for the professional network features, but honestly I kinda would prefer the Craigslist interface since that is actually searchable.

Yoric 4y ago
I'm a tech lead in France with a detailed resume and LinkedIn sometimes shows me positions as a nurse in the US. No clue how their algorithm works, but I'm not highly confident in its quality :)

kadoban 4y ago

My last search, Indeed was great. They did free, decent resume consultation with me, and assigned me some rando to point out some good listings to apply for here and there (that surprisingly were generally well curated). Got several interviews and a job in short order. (no affiliation, they just were surprisingly helpful... I still don't know why, my situation at the time did not make me an amazing candidate or anything)

vasco 4y ago
> I still don't know why It paid for this ad and others you may have spread around recalling the situation.
- kadoban 4y ago
  Maybe. If so, that's the _one_ type of marketing that I'll happily support, just doing a good job and waiting for your customers to tell people.

0xNOTVALID 4y ago

I’ve noticed that many applicants for positions at my company from Indeed.com are entirely unqualified. Often truck drivers, etc. for a software engineering role and the resume will have no engineering related experience. I’ve been told that many of these applicants are people applying to jobs they have no hopes of getting interviewed for. In many states you must prove you are actively looking for a job to collect unemployment benefits.