Ask HN: Is LinkedIn Job Search the worst? Partial outage?
I was deep in one of my semi-regular "Am I using the right tech stack?" career crises, so I decided to use LinkedIn to assess the market for different technologies, understand requirements, number of remote jobs, company profiles, and so on.
For context, I'm currently a mobile developer (Flutter, iOS, Android), but I decided to research other technologies (Rust, Java, DevOps, Vue, JS, etc).
The LinkedIn search is completely ducked. No matter what I searched for, I keep getting promoted results for my old stack (ALL mobile jobs). I searched for Rust jobs, I got iOS, Kotlin, and Flutter jobs. None of those were Rust, even if I opened the ad, I didn't find any mention for Rust. All promoted, no matter how many pages I keep checking.
We tried to search it from my sister's phone, searching for Rust, all she got as a result is different Sales positions (she works in sales).
It's been a while since I searched for other tech on LinkedIn and I don't remember LinkedIn being so bad, so I am wondering if they really got this bad, or they just had a bad deployment and messed up search.
Could be relevant, about 2 weeks ago, I let LinkedIn know I'm looking for jobs as I want to have a second gig, a side job.
A bit of a false dichotomy. But in my own experience, the search is not very semantic. Director of Engineering that builds bridges is pretty different from a Director of Engineering that builds APIs. My experience with LinkedIn job search often conflates such things.
Not sure what you mean with the false dichotomy... The search is so extremely bad (and I don't remember it being this bad a month ago), that I considered they might have released a bug. It looks like it completely ignores my search query. Of course other explanations are also possible.
Try https://hiring.cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803304
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