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Comment by jakub_g | Hacker News Reader

I didn't find my job on SO, but it was definitely one of the best job boards around, at least the ones with international scope:

- mostly good companies putting their ads

- often salary transparency

- nice visually and on whole UX level

- integration with SO tags and profiles of existing workers

SO was a page that naturally felt to fit this kind of use case. I'm kinda sad.

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yeah it actually kind of made sense to me having the jobs right there. i haven't applied using the job portal yet but it was definitely something i was hopeful about. i recently got back into coding because of the pandemic and started to make some progress, been on a few interviews and hoping to find a company that appreciates what i bring to the table. so maybe i will try a few openings before they sunset and write a proper blog about the experience. regardless, stackoverflow having a job board makes sense to me.

100% agree that it was a well-done product, although I never went through the application process, I've read countless relevant job postings. I also don't do linked in (feels too much like social media) so I'm sad to see this stack overflow option leaving.

I seem to recall being rejected from their system because I hadn't given them and GitHub enough free labor to accrue the Internet points that would make me a "real" developer. Merely being paid to write software for years and years makes me a faker, I guess.

I like that the ads list comp (god, that saves a bunch of everyone's time) but I never checked them again after that. Dunno if they knocked that off or kept doing it.

This^ is not me but I am curious. Why is this being downvoted?

Maybe they only did that briefly and people have forgotten, and I was just unlucky? Maybe folks think it's fine? Maybe framing farming upvotes and stars on GH and SO as giving free labor to corporations is rubbing people the wrong way (though that seems like a pretty neutral and fair characterization of that dynamic, to me)? Dunno.

Salary transparency should be the standard.

I agree. The listing quality is good compare with other job boards.

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