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by mianos 3150 days ago
I tried to hire through them recently. It was a joke of a process. More like the way uaed cars are sold. Don't contact us, we'll contact you. No price displayed, we negotiate that depending on how much you can afford. The sign up system simply didn't work, saying I had already signed up but then the next button simply didn't work. They did get back to me a week later. This completely change my view. I went from wanting to use them to advertise for people to work here with like minds to a detractor.
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I had the exact same experience recently. I was credit-card-in-hand ready to pay $500+ for a job posting on their site, but there was no way to do so. Then when they finally called me back, they gave me this story of how they were "didn't want to be thought of as a job postings site as they were far more than that" and said the only thing they would sell is subscriptions of multiple job postings a year. I ended up posting on some competing sites - I'm surprised they're willing to lose out on willing customers like this!
Indeed is doing a good job at hiring in the tech field. Their Prime product is great (if you live in one of the cities they are running it in).

(Disclaimer: I work @ Indeed, but I've seen friends quickly hired using Prime.)

It took me a while to understand that by "Indeed" you refer to the company.