Why isn't someone doing something like this for house hunting?
Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder
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#102Congrats for launching the product! > These days it is common to apply to dozens of positions (some users track over a hundred opportunities). Honest question: is it that common? I'm an average software engineer in Western Europe. When I was junior (around 2010-2015) I usually got a job after submitting ~3 job applications (mainly, because I was accepting anything at that time). Nowadays, since I have more experience…
That was also my experience as last as last year. However, something has changed. I suspect a combination of factors have depressed the market - my top two guesses are massive layoffs of highly skilled FAANG candidates, and uncertainty about the value of tech skills in general in the age of cheap AIs. The market seems to be recovering as the laid off workers either reabsorb or move on to other things, and the limitations of AI become clear.
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#103Really good idea for an app. My only wish is that the data was local only. It seems to me that the temptation to monetize this very valuable data will be irresistible. Although it's been normalized over time, there is something very strange about trusting a perfect stranger with arguably some of the most sensitive data of your life. And yet this has become standard, so I think you're on firm ground. But I ask- should this really be firm ground? I think it's up to us technologists to make solutions that do the right thing even when our users don't know what that right thing is.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
By that logic, we should always be looking for another job, even when already working. It stops being a game of "having a second offer" and it becomes a "look for who wants to pay me more than what I am making at the moment".
Yes, you always should be available for work outside your current company. Staying in one bubble for long periods of time leads to brainwashing.
Sure. Someone should almost always be open to other opportunities that present themselves. But there's not necessarily anything wrong with staying in one place if it works for them. even if the "cool kids' are hopping around all the time.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. I think the only way to prevent spewing/spamming of every employer with resumes, would be if there was a crazy high cost to apply to each job . If someone paid $10 per month for 1 application or 100 applications, or 1000, for many the 1000 is going to happen. If it was $10 per application, you wouldn't be "changing" human behaviour, you'd be leaning into it, by de-incentivizing 1000 applications with "virtual pa…
The problem is the person who selectively applies to a job or three doesn't need this. The target is the person who has dozens of applications in various stages of flight and is "casting a wide net" to put the strategy charitably.
I suppose so. I tend to apply to a few jobs a year, but mostly because it seems like a neat place to work, or a change of pace.
One thing I have noticed, as I'm extremely skilled at this stage in my career, is that there are logically fewer jobs.
Spray and pray is more, I think, a junior thing.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
By that logic, we should always be looking for another job, even when already working. It stops being a game of "having a second offer" and it becomes a "look for who wants to pay me more than what I am making at the moment".
Yes, you always should be available for work outside your current company. Staying in one bubble for long periods of time leads to brainwashing.
Being available to work is not the same as interviewing so much that you need a dedicate webapp to help you keep track of what is going on.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I see this argument a lot, yet it falls apart upon closer inspection But does it, though? I don't think so. > I'm talking a few dollars a month to put your best foot forward (...) No, it really is not, and your portrayal really feels like a fraudulent way to frame the service. No job applicant becomes better suited for a position if they apply through service A or B. Moreover, the only thing that this sort of servi…
> your portrayal really feels like a fraudulent way to frame This an an incredibly offensive thing to say, there's definitely a fraud here and it is not me, you should probably try harder next time with your sigint thing :) Good luck with it mate, please don't ever again.
> This an an incredibly offensive thing to say (...)
I'm pointing out a fundamental trait of a system: if a service charges users for each job application, regardless of their nature, then there's a perverse incentive for service operators to maximize the number of job ads a user applies to.
This includes but is not limited to creating fake job adverts.
Do you disagree?
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#108The privacy statement is brutally honest they can do with your data whatever, sell it, keep it even though you delete, ruin your life.
“Hey google recruiter would you like to know how this candidate did on previous interviews, contact us and reduce the frustration and time it takes to hire”
Little value for a massive selloff of personal information.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is an applicant tracking system have an up to date view of the compensation landscape? Would I be required to submit how much I was offered to your system? Why would that be necessary?
That's a fair question - and no, almost all data is optional. But... people do enter this, and companies have roles with open compensation as well. I'm talking about an aggregated view into anonymized data here. EDIT: Just realized I wrote "applicant tracking system" above. Total slip of the tongue, this is an _application_ tracking platform for job seekers, not an ATS used by companies. Though I do sometimes think o…
Why not just gather all the roles with open compensation out there and aggregate that data then, instead of tracking only the ones your users apply to?
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Same here. Glassdoor keeps saying everywhere that companies have no influence on the reviews. But they absolutely allow removal of bad reviews, even going as far as contacting our HR team offering it as a paid service.
At my 100% remote company, we got a negative review from someone saying the bathrooms were dirty in our office. (We've never had an office, but there's another company with a similar name as ours that does) We eventually got it removed, but it took an extreme amount of effort to convince them to take it down. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to take a review down that isn't as easy to prove illegitimate. Thi…
It's very easy, their sales team will reach out and tell you about the paid options to manage your company profile. That's why the whole website is so dishonest. They keep claiming reviews are not influenced by companies and at the same time pressuring those companies to pay to cleanup their profile.