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First of all let me say kudos on the launch; I'm giving this feedback because it was my reaction and others might have the same: The two claims in your site he
by sequoia 15y ago
First of all let me say kudos on the launch; I'm giving this feedback because it was my reaction and others might have the same:
The two claims in your site header made me curious:
"Dealing in only the finest jobs for the finest people in tech" and "Post a Job It's free and it only takes 5 minutes." This made me scratch my head... how are they offering only the best listings if I can post in 5 minutes? Does that mean anyone can post anything? Because that doesn't sound like it will be a collection of "the finest jobs."
I did a test[1][2] and sure enough, there is no process of vetting the jobs. This, to me, says that the site will have all the same issues as e.g. Craigslist; perhaps more because craigslist actually charges to post a job in Boston. Basically: another random assortment of good jobs, bad jobs, scams, and time wasters. If you are claiming that your site deals with "only the finest jobs," you need to back that up with some actual mechanism to filter out bad jobs.
To your credit: the posting has been removed in the time it took me to write this comment. :) (Unfortunately most spammy/scammy/crappy job listings aren't as obvious as mine.)
[1] http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2012/3/26/best http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2012/3/26/best
[2: screenshot of 1] http://i.imgur.com/d0r7E.png http://i.imgur.com/d0r7E.png
- Peroni 15y agoWe made the decision to keep job posting free for now purely to help drive content and to give people a reason to return. The off-shoot of that is that we are manually vetting every single ad that gets posted. Your test ad wasn't removed by a spam filter, it was removed by either myself or Jon manually. Eventually you will have to pay to post your job on our site as well as more secure email verification but for now, we are happy staying up all hours of the night making sure that the quality remains high.