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This is the person who cancelled SO jobs. SO jobs should have been an absolute gold mine, instead he cancelled it. Makes no sense to me. If you can’t make a
by andrewstuart 4y ago
This is the person who cancelled SO jobs.
SO jobs should have been an absolute gold mine, instead he cancelled it.
Makes no sense to me. If you can’t make a ton of money on job ads on Stack Overflow then you’re not trying.
It’s true that SO was doing SO jobs wrong, but it should have been fixed, not cancelled.
- MuffinFlavored 4y ago> SO jobs should have been an absolute gold mine job websites I can think of off the top of my: hired indeed linkedin ziprecruiter google shows jobs websites google recommends: monster glassdoor simplyhired yes none of these are customized like stackoverflow but, don't you think that competition is stiff enough?
- cinntaile 4y agoYou really don't think SO had a leg up for dev jobs?
- smt88 4y agoThose competitors should all lose to SO because SO is a site every developer visits many times per week even if they aren't job hunting. Indeed can't find me devs that don't know they want to leave their current job yet.
- andruby 4y agoSure, there's lot's of competition. But: the market is also really huge, and SO had a good way to differentiate. Every business is recruiting and willing to pay hundreds or thousands to fill each spot.
- BoorishBears 4y agoHow many of those sites has one millionth the brand equity that StackOverflow has with developers? Every single site you mentioned is filled to the brim with low quality low effort Contract to Hire recruitment spam. StackOverflow could have been the way to get real tech jobs, but they squandered it.
- the_only_law 4y agoLinkedIn’s job board is could almost be usable if it didn’t stuff the results full of “promoted” crap.
- polalavik 4y agoThe arena is saturated, but the quality is garbage. Lots of 3rd party recruiters hiding company names posting the same job everywhere. If you can keep the quality high for a small-medium group there is money to be made, I imagine (i'm trying to start a job board myself for a tiny group). But just look at anything Pieter Levels has built (remoteok.io) dude has a huge monthly MRR. granted hes a solo founder and SO probably employs many. Also look at Dice.com. They allegedly bring in near 150Million/year! To have a targeted audience in the palm of you hands and throw it out the window is just bad business. SO is really just throwing away money.
- tannhaeuser 4y agoMaybe SO management figured it should be more lucrative to have those job sites/brokers bid on ads placed on SO rather than becoming a competitor to their customers.
- mirekrusin 4y agoI used to work for company helping with hiring process, we had integration with most of them. The consensus at the time was that end to end wise (company hires and is happy with candidate) - you could just remove every integration leaving just stack overflow jobs and it'd be fine. It's beyond me why they cancelled it, so stupid from my PoV.
- mustacheemperor 4y agoSO was phenomenal for sourcing engineering talent. No board I ever used since gets close to the level of incoming candidate quality. I am still sorry it's gone, and I'm especially sorry every time I need to interact with LinkedIn hiring instead.
- gumballindie 4y agoCan confirm. I used to use it for hiring high quality engineers.
- beardbound 4y agoI loved looking for jobs on SO. I found some of the coolest companies and was seriously bummed when it went under. It’s how I heard about my current job I’ve happily been at for a couple of years.