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Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

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Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

#31

Interesting way to search for jobs. I feel a bit weird though in that I'm drawn to jobs more based on the business domain and problems being solved than the particular technology used for the implementation. Getting asked 'what is your stack' always felt like a weird lead in vs. what problems you are solving day to day, but I feel mostly alone in this sentiment...

I can absolutely understand and I feel the same way. I can't understand this infatuation with stacks. They're just a tool for solving a problem. If another tool is better for solving a particular problem then you should use that. It's nothing to be obsessed with. If you present yourself as just a bunch of TLAs you're effectively selling yourself short. Put bluntly, if you do that you're presenting yourself as a code…

But the job ads and interviews I've seen and been to are all heavily about the stack and very little about other qualities. E.g. changing language is considered making me junior from senior and halving my salary. Only exception would be a newer tech e.g. GO where perhaps getting experienced people is tough.

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

#32
A few weeks ago at Hack the North (UWaterloo), a few friends and I built exactly this.

We literally aggregated all of our company data from StackShare, only difference was that we parsed their resumes for the preferred languages/technologies instead of having them manually enter it.

Glad to see our idea had some validity!

Link for those curious: https://github.com/kshvmdn/find-me-a-job.

Re: Show HN: Stack Match – Find engineering jobs that match your preferred stack

#33
- Being able to sort my stack would be nice. I put up my company and noticed that random small libraries I added dominated the first few positions instead of the bigger elements.

- The scrollbars (or iframe?) and typeaheads can be pretty slow on mobile.

- The scrollbars (or iframe?) end up with a lot of unnecessary whitespace and may be difficult to navigate.

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