Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
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Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
> I've pretty much determined that some degree of manual review will be needed You're spot on with everything.
whereis-whoishiring-hiring.meHow HN took it
21 positive, 30 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Execution: 3 for, 10 againstIdea: 9 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean interface and useful location filtering
From 3 comments
Nice name and clean interface! I'm glad to see Remote as a location, but due to the free-form writing in the original posts, there are errors. For example, "Haskell dev at…
zedpm on HNThis is great! Thanks for making it :)
ryan-allen on HNThis is pretty excellent.
cmpb on HN
Good idea for tracking hiring by city
From 2 comments
Very cool idea, fun name, practical interface. I like it. Perhaps add a simple tagging system where users can add tags to hiring posts. That way you don't need to comb through…
chatmasta on HNAwesome, awesome idea! Any plans to do the same with "Who's looking for work"?
cauterized on HN
Objections
Some posts misclassified, e.g. remote-no and all-caps city names missed
From 2 comments
Nice name and clean interface! I'm glad to see Remote as a location, but due to the free-form writing in the original posts, there are errors. For example, "Haskell dev at…
zedpm on HNGreat project, however I've noticed some listings are missing. For example, from April, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303396 there was a posting from Questrade. It's…
jeromegv on HN
Los Angeles sub-areas like Venice and Santa Monica should roll up to LA
From 2 comments
i believe its not its own city. 2 posts for venice should be part of los angeles. you can still have venice its own section if u want, but excluding it from los angeles doesn't…
ugh123 on HNAs an LA-area resident, I definitely feel like an overall "Los Angeles" category is important. Santa Monica and Venice are LA; leaving them out is like leaving out Palo Alto or…
mhartl on HN
Requests
Visa sponsorship filter
From 1 comment
Great work! As a sugestion for next feature, I'd recommend a selection for visa sponsorship or not.
dataker on HN
Sort or filter by technology or language
From 3 comments
Sorting by language would be a great feature for this as well, particularly for those of us who work in more obscure / esoteric languages.
venantius on HNThis is really cool. I'd love to see this by technology composition too.
meritt on HNcan you please also provide filter of Technology?
pknerd on HN
Standard structured post format
From 2 comments
Love this. I was able to get more useful information about remote working than I was able to when reading the original who is hiring April post. This is probably a good time to…
nstart on HNAgreed on the parsing. It would be nice if there was a standard "form" to be posted. Something line. Description: .... Company: keyworks: python, startup, collstuff Visas…
c4n4rd on HN
Questions
Is copyright an issue when republishing HN post text?
From 1 comment
Although I'm sure companies won't complain about the additional publicity, are there any concerns of copyright issues with scraping and republishing the text from other HN posts?
stephengoodwin on HN
Can a European work remotely for a US company without an H1B?
From 1 comment
General question about remote work: as a european, can you work remotely for an american company without an H1B visa?
yodsanklai on HN
Alternatives named
HN Hiring Trends by Ryan Williams
From 1 comment
This is cool, nice to look at other projects analyzing this data. I publish HN Hiring Trends, http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/ , that watches the various…
mountaineer on HN
Twitter job posts
From 1 comment
I should mention that I and other hiring managers I've talked with are moving away from posting on the "Who is hiring?" post. It was pretty useful ~6 months ago. But, the amount…
larsberg on HN