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Curious where do you look for jobs? I’m in the mortgage industry and might be a good time to start looking.

I just landed a job after 8 months of applications. Oof. The usefulness probably varies city to city, but for NY tech jobs I got the most mileage out of Built In[1]. Being able to filter with a checkbox for "frontend jobs" was nice. I was also a daily user of Indeed (awful) and LinkedIn (saturated with bad jobs – but their alerts are lovely!).

All three of these sites have a large amount of "promoted" jobs that show up. I'd recommend filtering them out with a script or user style.

I wasn't looking for a start up role, but have heard good things about AngelList[2] for those that are.

[1] https://builtin.com/tech-hubs

[2] https://angel.co/

I have a running LinkedIn search for 'principal software engineer' and 'software engineer' in Portland that has been going for a while. I'm not really looking right now, but I like to see what the trends look like.

Curious what does that mean? "running" it's automated/bought or you just search time to time?

If you do a job search in linkedin, there's an option at the top left to set an alert.

Yep, it's automated. LinkedIn has the concept of saved searches, and these are mine. It sends me an email every day or so with a list of matching jobs in the local area.

LinkedIn alerts cover most use cases. For startups: https://topstartups.io/

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