Careers site Indeed to lay off 1k workers

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5 points·altdataseller··8 comments

How does a job board have 13k employees?

indeed.com/about

>At Indeed, our mission is to help people get jobs. We have more than ~13,000 global employees passionately pursuing this purpose and

That makes no sense to me, are there parts of the business that are really high touch that we don't see as regular users? seems so out of whack

I would guess the majority are high touch sales people reaching out to companies to advertise on the site, or managing their accounts

Craigslist famously has just 50 employees. Indeed has 260 employees for every single Craigslist employee -- or, in other words, Craigslist gets by with 0.038% as many employees.

In the US, Craigslist is the more popular website (#22 vs. #28 per Similarweb.) Indeed.com is marginally more popular internationally.

How on Earth does this happen? Optimizing for headcount?

I just noticed StackOverflow jobs is now "powered" by Indeed. And it is unfortunately pretty useless. It is sad because the original SO Jobs had so much potential.

Why is it useless?

It doesn't seem to add any more value than Indeed. The old SO jobs site had job postings tagged with technologies (like the questions have tags). There were filters for compensation, tech, etc. There was a remote checkbox. I remember there being a better geographic filter. You could see the SO profiles of the people at the company. I am not sure what this adds vs going directly to Indeed.com. The current search removes the # from C#, so you are left with C jobs. The Cities drop down seems to be missing the states. It is Arlington VA or TX? No jobs in DC? Really?

It's indeed.

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