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Open to feedback of course! It's very early days as you can see, haven't spent much time marketing it but I'm about to start.
Everybody has their own preference, and I'd love a jobs board that lets you actually search by those preferences.
Would love to hear feedback on the idea / site itself, but would love it even more if people post a job or two! Here's some info from the about page that explains what I'm trying to solve / improve in the hiring process for software developers etc.
A huge number of software developers believe that the interview process for developers is broken. Some interviews suit certain people while to others it frustrates them to the point that they don’t even want to continue the hiring process. We believe that this isn’t good for the company looking to hire a candidate or the candidate themselves. While there’s no silver bullet for this problem, we certainly think that things can be better – much better in fact.
This is why SoftwareJobs.xyz was created. Imagine you could filter jobs by the interview type – now you can! Do you hate whiteboard interviews – fine, you’ll never have to write pseudo code ever again in front of a bunch of other developers. Maybe you prefer to do take home tests so to show your full potential so that you don’t feel under as much pressure and can use your own IDE etc. Or maybe you even refuse to do interviews unless you’re compensated for your time by doing paid interviews?
Everybody is different.
It's good for both the developer and the company in my opinion, I went in to more detail on the site about that. But basically - this is an MVP site to filter jobs by interview type such as whiteboard interviews (ewww), take home tests, online tests etc. Some developers lean towards take home tests so they aren't under as much pressure while others hate them because they'd spend too much time on it so would rather an online test for example.
It's an MVP as you can probably tell, but in the future I could add more things that developers care about such as open plan offices, remote work and so on.
Disclosure: I wrote this "whitepaper"
It's one of our selling points actually. In the past people that live elsewhere would have to fly over to the UK to set up an account for example!
A few months back we rebranded from PayWithFire.com to Fire.com which was a big step for the company. It's open to UK and Irish customers, but we're hoping to expand to elsewhere in the future.
At the moment the big banks are very slow here (probably the same in the US), when you want to open a bank account it takes a few months (and you'll have to actually go to a bank to apply!), at that stage you just get one currency, if you want another you'll have to go through another application process which also takes around 3 months - not good.
With Fire you can apply fully online and within 24 hours get up and running (both a £ and € account). If you want even more accounts, you can get another by just clicking "Add account" and you're done. Not to mention the banks charge ridiculous fees for startups that only have a few payments coming in now and again, who would much prefer fees based on usage. There's read only API access to the business account too which is handy for developers!
The feedback has been really positive from startups that just can't wait months and months to get access to a bank account. There's a personal app too which I suppose is similar to Venmo in the US. If anyone has any questions give us a shout.
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