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Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by elwebmaster »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #73
elwebmaster wrote: post #58

Please make one for North Koreans who will be posting thousands of fake resumes to these jobs. Ultimately the chance of a legitimate candidate getting through are less than the chance of winning the lottery.

What a cynical take. If that were the case, every remote company would be staffed exclusively by north Koreans.

There is a difference between applications and hired. Certainly a number larger than 0 do get hired, which in itself is a problem, but the bigger issue is that they are clogging the recruitment pipeline and preventing legitimate candidates from getting an interview. They are also wasting HR time. Ultimately this leads to HR prioritizing direct outreach, referrals and other application methods that are less open to scammers. It’s a lose-lose for everyone except North Korea and the few enablers they have on the ground in the US.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by manbitesdog »

xitang wrote: post #106
manbitesdog wrote: post #90

This looks neat. If there was a way to contribute (such as doing a PR to some repo with a new file in some integrations folder) I'd be happy to help extend it

Thank you for your kind words and offers! The repo is currently close sourced but I will keep this in mind. Are you looking to help add some companies not already in the list?

Exactly

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

xitang wrote: post #11
mixmastamyk wrote: post #10

Please remove the unnecessary animation that locked up a tab here for several seconds.

Thanks for the feedback. I think the lag might have been mainly due to the page loading and rendering 400+ job rows at once and is not related to the animation, though there might also be some hydration issues with the animation. Agree that the lag isn't good UX, I will look into getting it fixed soon. Aside from the lag, I was hoping folks might appreciate the artistic of the animations where companies are resolving…

Mine stopped exactly at the animation, before proceeding.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

nico wrote: post #74

Excellent, looks really nice, thank you for putting it together Do you have some sort of feed/api that a program can consume? Would love to import those jobs into this CLI tool I created that helps people find good job matches, and track applications, using AI: https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs Right now it has scrapers for HN’s Who is hiring, for Workatastartup and Workday

Thanks for your kind words! I haven't offered any public feed/api yet. Your project looks very cool. Will look more into it and circle back if I open up integration.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

rco8786 wrote: post #83

Are those MS roles right? A "principal" engineer needs 6 YOE and makes $322k TC?

Yes, different companies define levels differently. Microsoft's principal and Linkedin's staff can be a senior in another company, hence why I include the yoe as it says more about the requirements. Also, Microsoft's salary is in the low end compared to other companies in similar role and yoe, but salary is only one factor I suppose. They historically offer better wlb in general, though this might vary teams from teams.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

koinedad wrote: post #112

I like the idea of this site unfortunately it’s unusable on my phone from the row lag. I’ll have to check it out on my laptop soon.

Sorry for the lag. I just fixed 2 bugs that should massively improve it if you would like to try again. Look forward to any feedback/suggestion you might have. Thanks

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

andersonbd1 wrote: post #119

is there anything similar for comparing work-life balance at different companies?

What are you thinking to compare WLB? Like a WLB score that folks can vote on?

One challenge is that WLB is more team specific than company specific as it can vary from team to team.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

scarface_74 wrote: post #120
xitang wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say yes and no. A key goal of the job board is to allow candidates to see which companies are hiring and which positions are open. This is the most important thing to start with. What strategy a person use to apply would vary. An experience individual would reach out to their contacts who work in those companies for a referral or find ways to reach out the hiring recruiter or manager to increase their odds of…

> On the other hand, for companies actively hiring and with many openings, e.g. Coinbase at the moment, a simple cold apply works just fine to get you to the door of interview. With hundreds if not thousands (not exaggerating) of candidates?

I guess it increases your shots if the company is actively hiring. I can't speak to others, but that is actually how I and some of my friends land remote jobs, just by cold applying. And you get more chance if you apply early as soon as the post is up the first day or two.

Of course, as you said, it is more effective if you have connections or have gotten cold outreach by recruiters. But my point is that cold applying still works and quite some folks land their jobs this way.

Re: Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S.

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Post by xitang »

winrid wrote: post #89
xitang wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing that you run into the same issue. Agree that something is wrong, perhaps scrolling causes the table to re-render for some reasons. I will look more into it and getting it fix next. There are techniques to optimize performance such as only render visible rows. I haven't spent much time testing it on mobile web and will enhance the mobile web view & experience upcoming.

You don't need to only render visible rows. There are only 400. You just insert them into the Dom and that's it.

Thanks again for your note! You are totally right that something is wrong. I took a closer look and fixed 2 issues that should massively improve the performance now if you would like to try again.

Below are more details--- Issue 1. Table with a link overlay in every cell I initially used an off shelf table component to move fast and didn't take a closer look at the implementation. It turned out this component renders a link overlay in every cell to allow user to click table row to be taken to the job link. So 400 jobs with 6 rows end up rendering 2400 link overlays.

The reason it attaches a link overlay to a cell instead of a row is due to a well known bug with Safari, where you can't use `position: relative` in table row `tr` https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240961. Attaching it to each cell works for small number of rows but causes performance issues with large number of rows.

I fixed it by rolling out my own table with css grid instead. It is not as semantic as it no longer uses table, thead, th, tr, td, but thanks to Safari, it is a tradeoff I am okay with.

Bug 2. Unnecessary re-render on Zustand store rehydrate I used Zustand store to filters preference and save it to browser's local storage. On page load, it fetches from local storage to update the state or store rehydrate . I didn't use shallow comparison initially and caused the table to render even if the prev and new state is an empty array due to comparison by reference. Using shallow comparison minimize an uncessary render.

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