Ask HN: Job Board Frustrations for Developers

1 points by danhodgins ↗ HN
What are your biggest frustrations with using job boards and job aggregators both large (Monster, Indeed) and small (Unicorn Hunt, WeWorkRemotely)? What features would your dream job board include?

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New York State runs a job board which is filled with crap job entries. Sometimes the job is supposedly in Syracuse, NY but when you talk to the recruiter, the job is in Atlanta.

As a dev I'd rather get jobs in an RSS feed or API and view and filter them with my own system. In fact, for the last two job searches I did, I did just that.

Roll-your-own filtering of RSS or API results is an interesting idea, Paul. Thanks for sharing.
I think my biggest issue is dealing with recruiters. 99% of jobs listed have a recruiter on the other end.

I generally make it a habit of only responding if I know it's directly with HR or someone working for the company.