[throwcean]

Yea it is truly awful.. e.g. job search has become even worse than it was a few years ago. The only good platform (Stackoverflow) has closed its job search. Most jobs seem to be on Linkedin these days.

However for a while now Linkedin job search seemingly shows me random stuff.. I can search for C++ and find all kinds of Java, Javascript, PHP jobs. It is driving me mad.

Any recommendations for job search sites (maybe even with negative filters)? I know about Who is Hiring? of course but there are not too many jobs for my region usually.

[yetihehe]

Search engines use some metric to find relevance to your query. In ye olde days it was "how many words in description matched your query". Now it's typically "how much money did this company give us".

[andrewstuart]

One of the things that triggered this post was I did a search on LinkedIn jobs for "python" and the task of sorting through the seemingly random results to find "python" jobs was too hard so I gave up.

[dcminter]

"Java" + "Staff Engineer" produces so many completely unrelated roles that it just isn't funny. I was also extremely irritated to find that you can't specify your own role on your profile as you wish; they'll force "Senior Software Developer" to be "Senior Software Engineer" for example.

[dcminter]

LinkedIn is mostly catering to the recruiters. If they make the job search too efficient then they'll stop being able to sell access to the candidates.

Drives me nuts too.

I mostly use LinkedIn as a place to curate my CV (resumé) and I reckon they'd be weak to a challenger who used that as their route into that market. Doubly so if they can figure out how to get the candidates to pay instead of the recruiters (there are more of us).