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Comment by orteipid | Hacker News Reader

A note to companies:

PLEASE do not put the word "remote" in your posting if you do not hire remote employees. It makes scanning for companies that do more difficult. People will assume by default that your company is only local.

Edit: As suggested below, using "on-site only" is a much more find-friendly phrase.

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Yes! use REMOTE, US-ONLY, LOCAL

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I'd also like to throw this out there -- I'd really like to see HN require "location" as part of official HN job postings.

Very few post where they are located, and then I have to go to the company website, and sometimes even the website doesn't tell me where they are, and I end up searching for them on Google maps!

Unfortunately this is not true. As someone who posts in here every month I get about 5-10 emails from remotes each month if I don't put that in. Sorry.

I would recommend saying "on-site only".

Duhhh. Thanks, that should work :)

agreed it would help a lot, the R word is the best way to quickly scan....

If search optimization is what you're after, why not just use "local"

because one can be both remote _and_ local

Also if it's remote but US-only, please put this in the posting too.

If there were some standard format all listings used (e.g. REMOTE:TRUE, STATE:MA, etc) it would make 'ctrl+f'ing a lot easier.

in addition to 'ctrl+f' you might want to checkout: http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/city/2015/4/REMOTE which does a pretty good job of removing the 'No Remo..' entries

Oh you mean all the text parsing job sites that just do

    if "remote" in post.text:
        post.remote = True

I think they should do a better job with it and not force people to write in a certain way.

Honestly, I just use Ctrl+F and it throws me off too.

They should do a better job with their if statements, if anything.

I see what you did there.

Thanks for sharing vague thoughts about work other people should do. Without some discipline or structure in the listings, there's no easy way to determine if the post is saying the R-word is allowed or that it's not; there are a a huge number of variations in how the idea is expressed.

But there are many fun complicated ways =)

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