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IT and software engineering jobs in the US, Canada and the UK.

Our website is intentionally simple. Please, follow this link to learn more about us:

https://www.staticjobs.com/about_us.php

Don’t shoot us for the staffing agencies, please. We’re very well aware that nobody likes them. On the back-end we have everything to eliminate them from the search results. We cannot implement this functionality on the front-end yet for various reasons.

Job seekers, we are sympathetic with all of you and are committed to making your lives easier. For example, you won’t see “great” stealth mode start-ups or established companies that are too “shy” to disclose their name. We require all job posters to publish their company name. Thus, no confidential or anonymous companies; you will know who you’re sending your resume to.

As well, we realize that employers need to be educated. Eventually we’re going to fix the problem with employers not posting pay rate, posting junk ads, programming assignments, tests and insane interviews and we may go as far as outlawing third-party agencies.

At this stage we’re still in start-up mode and cannot be picky as far as job posters are concerned but our ultimate goals are above. Please, take a look at our site and apply for a job if you need one. And we would appreciate technical feedback again, especially how our site looks on tiny and huge screens.

UK and Canadian employers, we’re giving free jobs to promote our business in your countries. Please, sign up and we’ll give you as many free jobs as you want. There’s nothing to lose. Worst case - you’ll waste a bit of your time. Best case - you’ll get a couple of resumes. We have traffic from these countries.

IT and software engineering jobs in the US, Canada and the UK.

Our website is intentionally simple. Please, follow this link to learn more about us:

https://www.staticjobs.com/about_us.php

Don’t shoot us for the staffing agencies, please. We’re very well aware that nobody likes them. On the back-end we have everything to eliminate them from the search results. We cannot implement this functionality on the front-end yet for various reasons.

Job seekers, we are sympathetic with all of you and are committed to making your lives easier. For example, you won’t see “great” stealth mode start-ups or established companies that are too “shy” to disclose their name. We require all job posters to publish their company name. Thus, no confidential or anonymous companies; you will know who you’re sending your resume to.

As well, we realize that employers need to be educated. Eventually we’re going to fix the problem with employers not posting pay rate, posting junk ads, programming assignments, tests and insane interviews and we may go as far as outlawing third-party agencies.

At this stage we’re still in start-up mode and cannot be picky as far as job posters are concerned but our ultimate goals are above. Please, take a look at our site and apply for a job if you need one. And we would appreciate technical feedback again, especially how our site looks on tiny and huge screens.

UK and Canadian employers, we’re giving free jobs to promote our business in your countries. Please, sign up and we’ll give you as many free jobs as you want. There’s nothing to lose. Worst case - you’ll waste a bit of your time. Best case - you’ll get a couple of resumes. We have traffic from these countries.

IT and software engineering jobs in the US, Canada and the UK.

Our website is intentionally simple. Please, follow this link to learn more about us:

https://www.staticjobs.com/about_us.php

Don’t shoot us for the staffing agencies, please. We’re very well aware that nobody likes them. On the back-end we have everything to eliminate them from the search results. We cannot implement this functionality on the front-end yet for various reasons.

Job seekers, we are sympathetic with all of you and are committed to making your lives easier. For example, you won’t see “great” stealth mode start-ups or established companies that are too “shy” to disclose their name. We require all job posters to publish their company name. Thus, no confidential or anonymous companies; you will know who you’re sending your resume to.

As well, we realize that employers need to be educated. Eventually we’re going to fix the problem with employers not posting pay rate, posting junk ads, programming assignments, tests and insane interviews and we may go as far as outlawing third-party agencies.

At this stage we’re still in start-up mode and cannot be picky as far as job posters are concerned but our ultimate goals are above. Please, take a look at our site and apply for a job if you need one. And we would appreciate technical feedback again, especially how our site looks on tiny and huge screens.

UK and Canadian employers, we’re giving free jobs to promote our business in your countries. Please, sign up and we’ll give you as many free jobs as you want. There’s nothing to lose. Worst case - you’ll waste a bit of your time. Best case - you’ll get a couple of resumes.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Ok, thanks! Let's stop.

Thank you for all your feedback again! You were not harsh at all and I can't help but agree with you. We'll try to improve it on the front end and back end and if we make enough money, we'll hire a professional designer.

I agree with you. There are many problems with staffing agencies and this is one of them.

In most places $140K is about the ceiling. In NYC it's not. Plus finances pay bonuses.

Furthermore, what does it mean to be good? If you're smarter than your interviewer or know more, they'll reject you. In general, I would say selling yourself has nothing to do with your programming skills.

Do you get actual offers or do you get asked to interview with them? There's a difference.

Yeah, a lot of my co-workers including myself don't like it because we're helping the rich get richer plus associated consequences.

Thank you for your feedback!

My partner has exactly the same thoughts. The market is indeed extremely saturated and there's huge money in it. However, I haven't seen good websites (in my opinion, that is) without all that clutter and visual noise.

Our focus is more on simplicity and we don't want you to spend hours on our site. Instead, we want you to quickly find a job, send your resume and move on. When you need a job, of course.

We too discussed the problem you suggested. That, however, imposes an additional burden on job seekers. Think about it. Interviews used to be 50 minutes long with one interviewer. Now we have phone screens in addition to face-to-face interviews, tests, job seekers have to fill out forms with hundreds of fields, meet with a bunch of interviewers, post JSON objects to URLs and other "clever" things.

This is not normal and we want to change that. I wonder if anyone else has given a thought to the whole situation.

Anyway, it's not our final decision and right now we just don't have the capacity for all extra stuff.

Why do you want to move out of academia? Get a tenure and you'll be doing your research plus you'll secure a job for the rest of your life.

Sorry to disappoint you and thank you for an upvote!

By creating this thread, we were raising awareness among job seekers _and_ recruiters/direct employers (not just job seekers) but right now it's too early to judge.

A couple of direct employers signed up yesterday and we all can help each other by telling our employers about this site. Yeah, I know I need it more than you.

Here's what I find amazing. Nobody seems to like staffing agencies. Yet there are plenty of them, they have lots of jobs and employees. Mystery.

Will do. By the way, we all can help each other if we tell our employers about this site (yeah, I know I need it more than you).

Yesterday a couple of direct employers signed so hopefully we'll have more jobs but don't expect a lot at this stage.

Keep checking once in a while. We're not a social network and therefore don't want you to spend a lot of time on our site.

Still, financial industry has lots of high paying jobs as well as bonuses to neglect it.

Would you resist making 140K on a base full-time? Keep in mind benefits and bonuses too.

Agreed. By creating this thread, we were trying to attract both job seekers and recruiters/direct employers.

Sorry, didn't mean any offense. I meant it as an old-fashioned way of saying "good friend", etc.

That's the problem. Most recruiters stuff every keyword they're aware of into their job ads and raise salaries to get resumes but 180K in NYC is definitely not the limit.

I know that man, though he never placed me. He has jobs in HFT field and financial industry in general.

How true those 180K I don't know.

As well, you may get "false hits" (note the quotes) because recruiters stuff every keyword they're aware of into their job ads. Even if it has nothing to do with the job itself, :-(. We just don't highlight them (yet).

Unfortunately I don't know how to help you. If you're in academia, maybe you should check various colleges and universities' websites?

We heard you. We'll try to attract direct employers and come up with a feature to eliminate staffing agencies from the results while keeping the interface as simple as possible.

We're still an early stage start-up and there are just to few jobs in our database.

Gents, it's in the subject. We're a new site and to be honest, it is difficult to attract and satisfy both job seekers and recruiters. We'll do our best to attract direct employers!

Michael, we'll do our best to attract direct employers to our site. To be honest, it is difficult to attract (and satisfy) both job seekers and employers. We're still an early stage start-up.

I understand you very well. We're from NYC and most jobs here are in the financial industry. They pay really well but it's hard to go through all those staffing firms and, later, interviews.

My co-worker says "there's life outside of financial industry" but, somehow, we get to stick to "financial" jobs.

Well, that's been my experience for the past 15 years or so.

I wonder how fast it'll be when (hopefully) we have more jobs in the database. Just curious to know.

And a great catch! The search is not perfect yet. False hits are returned if a city name occurs within a job description itself. For example, you search for Java in San Francisco, other jobs will be returned too if they contain San Francisco.

We're aware of this issue and it's on our top to-do list. Plus we're analyzing searches to make them better but right now there are just to few jobs in our database.

And thank you for your input too, old man!

mrmondo, you've got a perfectly valid point! The website was developed by C++ developers. We can write CSS but modern web UI isn't our strength, :-(. And thank you for your input too!

What is it called? We chose to use full state names rather than the abbreviations, i.e. "New Jersey" rather than "NJ." That's why "District of Columbia" rather than "DC."

Right now at least one keyword such as Java needs to be specified in order for the search to return results (assuming there are jobs with those keywords). Adding a location (you can have multiple cities and/or states) narrows your search down to jobs in those cities or states.

We may change the logic to return all the jobs if only a location is specified. This seems to be the confusing part. (We're analyzing job searches to improve them.)

Thanks for your feedback!

Michael, I hear you but haven't you noticed that most employers use third party agencies these days? Don't know about OR, but it's very true for NY and NJ (and probably CT). That's why there are threads about jobs being difficult to find. On one hand there are plenty of jobs, on the other hand there are none (or too few).

We're very sympathetic with all the job seekers but right now there are just too few jobs in our database. Eventually we may introduce a special keyword to omit staffing agencies from the search results or something like that.

And thank you for your input too! Good luck with your job search!

What's your OS? And thank you for your valuable input!

I developed most of the site on my 15.6 inch laptop running Ubuntu. I just loved Ubuntu's Times New Roman and didn't like its Arial. On Windows it's the opposite. Arial looks much better.

Similarly, blue hyperlinks looked great on my laptop's monitor but they're so-so on other monitors.

And you just confirmed both of my thoughts! There's indeed a great contrast between blue hyperlinks and white background on most monitors. And the font is hideous on Windows too, :-(.

We're going to fix both problems soon. As well, we're analyzing job searches to improve them. There's a lot of room for improvement both on the front-end and back-end.

By the way, our friend Evan has jobs paying up to 180K in NYC. You might want to contact him. https://www.staticjobs.com/search.php?company=Quantitative+S...

Hey Hacker News!

We're a new job search site for all computer professionals. Please, check us out! We made the website intentionally simple but we're C++ programmers, not designers. Therefore, we would appreciate any feedback, both positive and negative.

YC-funded start-ups and everyone else, if you're looking to post your jobs, please, give us a try. We're giving 25 free jobs to promote our site but if you need more, contact us and tell us you found us on Hacker News. We'll figure out something for you.

Those who need a job or looking for a change, we don't require you to register to submit your resume and never will. Just a few basic fields to fill out and you're done!

Thanks, folks!