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I think the biggest threat to this site's success is that it lacks differentiation in a market that's already extremely saturated. One problem the current job

I think the biggest threat to this site's success is that it lacks differentiation in a market that's already extremely saturated. One problem the current job search sites have that you might be interested in tackling, is that they lack a way of objectively measuring the capabilities of the applicants. There are software engineers that are 100x as productive as some others, but the pay for all of us is always within a factor of 3 or 4. If you can solve that problem, employers will love you for helping them hire better engineers, and qualified applicants will love you for getting them higher-paying jobs.

programmer01 11y ago
Thank you for your feedback! My partner has exactly the same thoughts. The market is indeed extremely saturated and there's huge money in it. However, I haven't seen good websites (in my opinion, that is) without all that clutter and visual noise. Our focus is more on simplicity and we don't want you to spend hours on our site. Instead, we want you to quickly find a job, send your resume and move on. When you need a job, of course. We too discussed the problem you suggested. That, however, imposes an additional burden on job seekers. Think about it. Interviews used to be 50 minutes long with one interviewer. Now we have phone screens in addition to face-to-face interviews, tests, job seekers have to fill out forms with hundreds of fields, meet with a bunch of interviewers, post JSON objects to URLs and other "clever" things. This is not normal and we want to change that. I wonder if anyone else has given a thought to the whole situation. Anyway, it's not our final decision and right now we just don't have the capacity for all extra stuff.