5 ms·

HN Hiring mapped

132 points by rullopat 12y ago

itsdrewmiller 12y ago
This is awesome. It doesn't seem to deal well with jobs posted in multiple locations - mine from April only shows up in DC when it was for both DC and Boston.
grakic 12y ago
"None" looks like a cool location at the center of the map with many openings :) Joke aside, you did a great job, this looks nice.
deleted 12y ago
[deleted]
jbernier 12y ago
This is so much better than sifting through the "Who's Hiring?" threads. Thanks
NDT 12y ago
Tesla Motors, Stationary Storage Group, Palo Alto - shows up on the 'Intern' filter, but it explicitly says they're not looking for interns at this time.
- purringmeow 12y ago
  Seems nobody is hiring interns for RoR or JavaScript backend/full-stack in Europe. Pity :(
  - xxpor 12y ago
    Why restrict yourself to one/two stacks/languages?
    - purringmeow 12y ago
      What do you mean? I am 20 years old and I can't have XP with 20 stacks/languages, although I am quite open to learning new stuff. Sadly, there are only so much technologies in demand where I am located.
      - curiousDog 12y ago
        I think what he means is you don't necessarily need to have experience with the particular stack before hand (and they probably don't expect interns to). You can pick it up on the job
        purringmeow 12y ago
        True, but I don't want to do enterprise Java or PHP, so there isn't anything else left for me in my region :(
jtchang 12y ago
I really like this library for clustering map pins: http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markerclusterer/docs/examples.html http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tru...
- danielsamuels 12y ago
  Unfortunately it doesn't seem to handle multiple pins in the same location very well, you can sometimes zoom all the way in and still have a cluster circle - making it impossible to click on individual items.
JTon 12y ago
Very fun to cruise around the world and see what areas are boiling over with opportunities. Perhaps unsurprisingly San Fran, London and NYC were my winners.
- vonmoltke 12y ago
  I was surprised by the density of opportunities in the Gulf of Guinea.
  - schmidtc 12y ago
    Someday I want to visit (0,0), lots of interesting things happen at the center of euclidean earth.
    - falava 12y ago
      The Republic of Null Island, "like no place on Earth": http://www.nullisland.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
  - deleted 12y ago
    [deleted]
mrfusion 12y ago
Which month is it looking at when it first opens?
acornax 12y ago
Interesting that only Toronto and Vancouver are present for Canada.
primaryobjects 12y ago
Great work. I also really like the json files that it produces https://github.com/gaganpreet/hn-hiring-mapped/blob/gh-pages/src/web/data/2014-07.json https://github.com/gaganpreet/hn-hiring-mapped/blob/gh-pages... Makes it easier to play with data analysis on the hiring threads in R. http://pastebin.com/TpLfSKjP http://pastebin.com/TpLfSKjP
click170 12y ago
How do I add to this map? My employer is hiring as well, and we're not listed, but we would like to be!
- wmil 12y ago
  On the 1st of every month there's a "Who's Hiring" thread, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970366 Just post there.
fencepost 12y ago
I'm pretty sure there's been at least one company in Loves Park, IL (by Rockford, west of Chicago) that I'm not seeing on there.
patrickbradley 12y ago
cool
davidw 12y ago
Interesting, if honest mistake: railsmachine.com is hiring in "Remote, USA". If you look that up, it actually exists as an aptly named wide spot on the road in Oregon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote,_Oregon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote,_Oregon https://www.google.com/maps/place/Remote,+OR+97458/@43.0059449,-123.8925908,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x54c45f47714fdd5d:0x47d11f5d0df41dfa https://www.google.com/maps/place/Remote,+OR+97458/@43.00594...
- jqueryin 12y ago
  I've seen Remote, USA used on several occasions on popular job boards that didn't support the option for telecommute or working remotely. It's a great hack that seemed to gain in popularity with the tech sector specifically. Luckily for all of us, it's far more common that remote jobs are explicitly listed as such nowadays and this workaround is diminishing.
anilgulecha 12y ago
So as a weekend project to learn a certain framework, I thought i'll build a Whoishiring frontend -- to make things easy for someone seeking a job (filtering via location, role, etc, tracking etc). So some market fit: Would you be interested as a user (is this better than looking at 100s of comments on the monthly posts? Easier than Ctrl-F and looking for terms?)? This will be to whoishiring posts, what ProductHunt is for Show HN.
- Taurenking 12y ago
  they already did it :) http://hnhiring.me/ http://hnhiring.me/
  - anilgulecha 12y ago
    This is too sparse, and not much more usable than the actual hackernews thread. I'm thinking: All metadata go through 2 steps -- machine learning (for best guess) + confirmation/correction via crowdsourcing. * Filtering by location. * Filtering by role * Filtering Remote/in location * Filtering by technology. * Some UI enhancements to pin roles, and save for later. And UI to share with someone. * Devs setup criteria and be notified monthly for matching openings. So there's definitely space for improvement :)

132 points by rullopat 12y ago

This is awesome. It doesn't seem to deal well with jobs posted in multiple locations - mine from April only shows up in DC when it was for both DC and Boston.

grakic 12y ago

"None" looks like a cool location at the center of the map with many openings :) Joke aside, you did a great job, this looks nice.

deleted 12y ago

[deleted]

jbernier 12y ago

This is so much better than sifting through the "Who's Hiring?" threads. Thanks

NDT 12y ago

Tesla Motors, Stationary Storage Group, Palo Alto - shows up on the 'Intern' filter, but it explicitly says they're not looking for interns at this time.

purringmeow 12y ago
Seems nobody is hiring interns for RoR or JavaScript backend/full-stack in Europe. Pity :(
- xxpor 12y ago
  Why restrict yourself to one/two stacks/languages?
  - purringmeow 12y ago
    What do you mean? I am 20 years old and I can't have XP with 20 stacks/languages, although I am quite open to learning new stuff. Sadly, there are only so much technologies in demand where I am located.
    - curiousDog 12y ago
      I think what he means is you don't necessarily need to have experience with the particular stack before hand (and they probably don't expect interns to). You can pick it up on the job
      - purringmeow 12y ago
        True, but I don't want to do enterprise Java or PHP, so there isn't anything else left for me in my region :(

jtchang 12y ago

I really like this library for clustering map pins: http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/markerclusterer/docs/examples.html http://google-maps-utility-library-v3.googlecode.com/svn/tru...

danielsamuels 12y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to handle multiple pins in the same location very well, you can sometimes zoom all the way in and still have a cluster circle - making it impossible to click on individual items.

JTon 12y ago

Very fun to cruise around the world and see what areas are boiling over with opportunities. Perhaps unsurprisingly San Fran, London and NYC were my winners.

vonmoltke 12y ago
I was surprised by the density of opportunities in the Gulf of Guinea.
- schmidtc 12y ago
  Someday I want to visit (0,0), lots of interesting things happen at the center of euclidean earth.
  - falava 12y ago
    The Republic of Null Island, "like no place on Earth": http://www.nullisland.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
- deleted 12y ago
  [deleted]

mrfusion 12y ago

Which month is it looking at when it first opens?

acornax 12y ago

Interesting that only Toronto and Vancouver are present for Canada.

primaryobjects 12y ago

Great work. I also really like the json files that it produces https://github.com/gaganpreet/hn-hiring-mapped/blob/gh-pages/src/web/data/2014-07.json https://github.com/gaganpreet/hn-hiring-mapped/blob/gh-pages... Makes it easier to play with data analysis on the hiring threads in R. http://pastebin.com/TpLfSKjP http://pastebin.com/TpLfSKjP

click170 12y ago

How do I add to this map? My employer is hiring as well, and we're not listed, but we would like to be!

wmil 12y ago
On the 1st of every month there's a "Who's Hiring" thread, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970366 Just post there.

fencepost 12y ago

I'm pretty sure there's been at least one company in Loves Park, IL (by Rockford, west of Chicago) that I'm not seeing on there.

patrickbradley 12y ago

cool

davidw 12y ago

Interesting, if honest mistake: railsmachine.com is hiring in "Remote, USA". If you look that up, it actually exists as an aptly named wide spot on the road in Oregon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote,_Oregon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote,_Oregon https://www.google.com/maps/place/Remote,+OR+97458/@43.0059449,-123.8925908,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x54c45f47714fdd5d:0x47d11f5d0df41dfa https://www.google.com/maps/place/Remote,+OR+97458/@43.00594...

jqueryin 12y ago
I've seen Remote, USA used on several occasions on popular job boards that didn't support the option for telecommute or working remotely. It's a great hack that seemed to gain in popularity with the tech sector specifically. Luckily for all of us, it's far more common that remote jobs are explicitly listed as such nowadays and this workaround is diminishing.

anilgulecha 12y ago

So as a weekend project to learn a certain framework, I thought i'll build a Whoishiring frontend -- to make things easy for someone seeking a job (filtering via location, role, etc, tracking etc). So some market fit: Would you be interested as a user (is this better than looking at 100s of comments on the monthly posts? Easier than Ctrl-F and looking for terms?)? This will be to whoishiring posts, what ProductHunt is for Show HN.

Taurenking 12y ago
they already did it :) http://hnhiring.me/ http://hnhiring.me/
- anilgulecha 12y ago
  This is too sparse, and not much more usable than the actual hackernews thread. I'm thinking: All metadata go through 2 steps -- machine learning (for best guess) + confirmation/correction via crowdsourcing. * Filtering by location. * Filtering by role * Filtering Remote/in location * Filtering by technology. * Some UI enhancements to pin roles, and save for later. And UI to share with someone. * Devs setup criteria and be notified monthly for matching openings. So there's definitely space for improvement :)