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Most of the jobs on Who's Hiring threads don't include any compensation, so I don't see how searching that source would be useful for many folks.

• nico 3y ago
  That’s true, and it would be a great feature to have. The scraper could “double click” on the listings and try to find salary ranges from other websites where the listing might be posted, like the careers page of the company I’m going one step at a time, the first tedious task I wanted to automate was searching and second-pass filtering Most job listing sites have tools to filter by many different factors, including role, location, remote, salary range and seniority level, but usually the filters are either too strict or too permissive and I still end up having to read through tens or hundreds of listings to select just a few Command Jobs gives me better matches faster by using GPT to match my resume and job preferences with the listings
• brailsafe 3y ago
  Seems like you're just critiquing the Who's Hiring thread, not this app. At this point though, I'd wager that a huge amount, if not a majority of people looking, aren't thinking about compensation first, and have accepted the reality that if they can get something that aligns even remotely with what they're interested in or are skilled at, they'd be lucky. Salaries are not going to be what they used to be. Not defending the exclusion of salary, but I think it would be pretty naive to dismiss the fact that a profound amount of people have been forced into unemployment and can negotiate if it gets there.
  • bagels 3y ago
    Yes, it's mostly a critique of those threads as a source. There's no forum to discuss them though. Not here, and the threads discourage feedback about the format. I think folks know there's downward pressure, but I'd rather not anyone have to waste time engaging with employers offering minimum wage for software engineers.
    • nico 3y ago
      Love the idea of having comments on job listings! It would be amazing! Companies might hate it? Hehe
      • bagels 3y ago
        The Who's Hiring threads do allow you to ask questions, but the YC companies posting jobs threads do not.
• joablen 3y ago
  I’ve used GPT to estimate compensation for jobs before and got pretty good estimates. I think adding said estimate to the prompt on this app shouldn’t be hard at all and might help
  • jordinl 3y ago
    How do you use GPT to estimate salaries?
    • nico 3y ago
      Not who you were replying to, but I know of two options: 1) the simplest, is to ask GPT to tell me an estimate for a certain role, at a certain company, at a certain location/area - with the right prompt, and if it can find additional info online, it gives pretty decent guesses 2) if you are willing to code it in multiple checks and steps, you can have GPT help you navigate and scrape listings. For example, the listings in Ask HN usually have very little detail, and no ranges, but a lot of them have links to somewhere else with detailed info, including ranges - or they don't have links, but you can still find the info and ranges their careers page or some other platform In the second case there's a lot of trial and error, for which GPT could be helpful in navigating with less supervision