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by codingdave 2360 days ago
It looks like this suffers from the same problem as Key Values - the search is an 'or', not an 'and'. I want to know which companies meet all my desires, not just one.
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Hi Dave. Happy New Year! Thanks for your valuable feedback. We are happy to inform that we have added this feature now and would be great to hear your feedback - https://www.howsitlike.com

Now you can switch on the toggle beside search option to find jobs only that match all the values you are interested in :)

Thanks for your feedback. I've researched both the options before working on this and there are hardly not many companies where all selected values would match if going with AND. We have around 37 values and each company has a different set of values. Instead we have built tags for each job that would highlight which of the selected values are matching. Additionally, I believe the search bar would help narrow down results to relavant job titles or location which would bring down the results to few. In those filtered results, if a company/job is matching all the values you have selected, it will highlight all of them in the job card. Hope this helps. Having said the above, we are expanding to more companies and roles and there could be 'AND' soon if we could see enough matches. Thanks again!
To be honest...I think this is a secondary concern. Your primary concern should be assigning the values correctly.

For example: If i select work from home, it returns Intuit, if I click apply, it takes me to their ATS...This is good, but it seems they are not offering work from home, so this result is false.

The reason why Key Values is enjoying some success is due to marketing. Right niche, good promotion, good design, good sales. (but even then, not that many companies have signed up. why not? They are probably aware of it.)

This format might work if you go after a different segment of the software industry (maybe?). I am currently doing something similiar in a unrelated industry, it helps if you can talk the lingo, know some people etc.

P.s Unlesss the companies have already paid to be listed? Then, well done.

Thanks for your feedback. True, in terms of values we spoke to the companies and also employees working at each company before assigning a value to the company. Intuit does offer work from home and here is some public feedback on this benefit - https://www.glassdoor.ie/Benefits/Intuit-Work-From-Home-US-B...

As our product is just out, I believe it takes bit more time for traction but am working constantly to provide more value through the site. We thought of culture itself as a niche as only few companies have their culture defined and also that way we would be able to cover different types of roles and companies. We are on a mission to be the largest and finest culture fit job board. Would love to be the go to place for culture fit jobs in general. I'll promote this more once I have the ongoing features like blog, newsletters and company profiles are integrated so that it can be of more value to our users. Thanks once again for your inputs and a Happy New Year!