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A note to companies: PLEASE do not put the word "remote" in your posting if you do not hire remote employees. It makes scanning for companies that do more diff
by orteipid 11y ago
A note to companies:
PLEASE do not put the word "remote" in your posting if you do not hire remote employees. It makes scanning for companies that do more difficult. People will assume by default that your company is only local.
Edit: As suggested below, using "on-site only" is a much more find-friendly phrase.
- brndn 11y agoIf there were some standard format all listings used (e.g. REMOTE:TRUE, STATE:MA, etc) it would make 'ctrl+f'ing a lot easier.
- house9-2 11y agoin addition to 'ctrl+f' you might want to checkout: http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/city/2015/4/REMOTE http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/city/2015/4/REMOTE which does a pretty good job of removing the 'No Remo..' entries
- wdewind 11y agoUnfortunately this is not true. As someone who posts in here every month I get about 5-10 emails from remotes each month if I don't put that in. Sorry.
- Buge 11y agoI would recommend saying "on-site only".
- wdewind 11y agoDuhhh. Thanks, that should work :)
- brianwawok 11y agoagreed it would help a lot, the R word is the best way to quickly scan....
- polytap 11y agoIf search optimization is what you're after, why not just use "local"
- aggieben 11y agobecause one can be both remote _and_ local
- laurent123456 11y agoAlso if it's remote but US-only, please put this in the posting too.
- lukasm 11y agoYes! use REMOTE, US-ONLY, LOCAL Shameless plug: add your remote company here https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
- lqdc13 11y agoOh you mean all the text parsing job sites that just do if "remote" in post.text: post.remote = True I think they should do a better job with it and not force people to write in a certain way.
- rev_bird 11y agoHonestly, I just use Ctrl+F and it throws me off too.
- fla 11y agoThey should do a better job with their if statements, if anything.
- sjshelby 11y agoI see what you did there.
- zedpm 11y agoThanks for sharing vague thoughts about work other people should do. Without some discipline or structure in the listings, there's no easy way to determine if the post is saying the R-word is allowed or that it's not; there are a a huge number of variations in how the idea is expressed.
- lqdc13 11y agoBut there are many fun complicated ways =)
- legohead 11y agoI'd also like to throw this out there -- I'd really like to see HN require "location" as part of official HN job postings. Very few post where they are located, and then I have to go to the company website, and sometimes even the website doesn't tell me where they are, and I end up searching for them on Google maps!