SO jobs should have been an absolute gold mine, instead he cancelled it.
Makes no sense to me. If you can’t make a ton of money on job ads on Stack Overflow then you’re not trying.
It’s true that SO was doing SO jobs wrong, but it should have been fixed, not cancelled.
job websites I can think of off the top of my:
hired
indeed
ziprecruiter
google shows jobs
websites google recommends:
monster
glassdoor
simplyhired
yes none of these are customized like stackoverflow but, don't you think that competition is stiff enough?
Indeed can't find me devs that don't know they want to leave their current job yet.
Every business is recruiting and willing to pay hundreds or thousands to fill each spot.
Every single site you mentioned is filled to the brim with low quality low effort Contract to Hire recruitment spam.
StackOverflow could have been the way to get real tech jobs, but they squandered it.
If you can keep the quality high for a small-medium group there is money to be made, I imagine (i'm trying to start a job board myself for a tiny group). But just look at anything Pieter Levels has built (remoteok.io) dude has a huge monthly MRR. granted hes a solo founder and SO probably employs many. Also look at Dice.com. They allegedly bring in near 150Million/year! To have a targeted audience in the palm of you hands and throw it out the window is just bad business. SO is really just throwing away money.
The consensus at the time was that end to end wise (company hires and is happy with candidate) - you could just remove every integration leaving just stack overflow jobs and it'd be fine.
It's beyond me why they cancelled it, so stupid from my PoV.