Ask HN: What is the most annoying part about finding a new job in tech?

Is it spending the time to search for good positions? Dealing with recruiters? Phone screens and interviews? Something else?

Dealing with recruiters who don't understand what a company is actually looking for can be pretty frustrating.

I think it is the weaknesses of the screening process at the other end. A lot of good applications go nowhere because they get little to no attention. It is still too hard to separate good candidates from the plethora of the applications received. This partly comes from missing good indicators of performance (See [1] for example).

While performance lacks good measures, compensation is quantitative as it is. This leads to misjudgements on quality-vs.-cost tradeoff impacting both the potential employers and good candidates.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130620142512-3...

Yes. What if the talent starts making their own bands on the performance solely based on how much the company pays. How would they feel about that? Most of their tactics can be reversed.

Clueless HR. For example, I'd been writing air traffic control software for a contractor of Lockheed Martin. When that contract finished, I applied to do the same at Thales and was turned down on the basis that there were "too many jobs" on my résumé. I explained that there were a lot of jobs because I was a contractor but they still refused to even see me. That was a big shock as I was told I got the LM job because I had a lot of experience. They wanted someone who had been programming for more than twenty years, which is fair enough when you're trying to avoid flying one plane straight into another one.