JamieF1

I've noticed a lot of posts on here lately about how the developer interview process is broken and I agree. So why not put the power back in the hands of the employees?

Open to feedback of course! It's very early days as you can see, haven't spent much time marketing it but I'm about to start.

I finally found it :) https://www.raptitude.com/2012/07/most-lives-are-lived-by-de...

Thanks, unfortunately none of these are the article I remember. I've spent hours searching for it but no luck so far. It was a blog post by somebody :(

Thanks, the feedback has been good in general when I've showed people it. My plan was to start filtering by the current filters, and then if it works out I can have additional filters (think of it as an "advanced filter") where you can be really specific.

Everybody has their own preference, and I'd love a jobs board that lets you actually search by those preferences.

I agree on your first point - it's like building a social network and having no users (chicken and the egg problem). There's a lot in it for the company / hiring manager, I think I've answered this question in the FAQs on the site but long story short: companies will also benefit from having candidates doing an interview that they feel shows their full potential.

I built this around a year ago, but never really officially launched it. I got a reminder that the domain was about to expire and thought to myself "Why not post on HN and see what happens!?"

Would love to hear feedback on the idea / site itself, but would love it even more if people post a job or two! Here's some info from the about page that explains what I'm trying to solve / improve in the hiring process for software developers etc.

A huge number of software developers believe that the interview process for developers is broken. Some interviews suit certain people while to others it frustrates them to the point that they don’t even want to continue the hiring process. We believe that this isn’t good for the company looking to hire a candidate or the candidate themselves. While there’s no silver bullet for this problem, we certainly think that things can be better – much better in fact.

This is why SoftwareJobs.xyz was created. Imagine you could filter jobs by the interview type – now you can! Do you hate whiteboard interviews – fine, you’ll never have to write pseudo code ever again in front of a bunch of other developers. Maybe you prefer to do take home tests so to show your full potential so that you don’t feel under as much pressure and can use your own IDE etc. Or maybe you even refuse to do interviews unless you’re compensated for your time by doing paid interviews?

I think you're right. It all comes down to the person involved. There's no silver bullet but I do think it makes sense to give people more choice.

And this is why I built a site to allow people to search for jobs based on interview type. Although I haven't done any proper marketing yet, still a work in progress (https://softwarejobs.xyz)

Everybody is different.

I made a chrome extension a good while back that only ran on Facebook, I assume it still works. Here's the link if it helps: https://github.com/JamieFarrelly/zuckerberg-reactions/blob/m...

Here you go: https://outline.com/https://www.economist.com/finance-and-ec...

One thing I noticed about job boards is that they are very generic so that they are relevant for all fields. So I thought it'd be interesting to launch this so that developers can find jobs with interviews that they believe they perform best at.

It's good for both the developer and the company in my opinion, I went in to more detail on the site about that. But basically - this is an MVP site to filter jobs by interview type such as whiteboard interviews (ewww), take home tests, online tests etc. Some developers lean towards take home tests so they aren't under as much pressure while others hate them because they'd spend too much time on it so would rather an online test for example.

It's an MVP as you can probably tell, but in the future I could add more things that developers care about such as open plan offices, remote work and so on.

That's not a bad idea. I think I'll make something like this, a site that let's you search for dev jobs with filters that devs actually care about. Any other suggestions for filters?

I made that! Thanks for sharing, didn't expect someone to know about it.

Yep you're right. I wrote a post about it before on Medium and made an extension that automatically puts noreferrer in there for you. Here's the link: https://medium.com/@Jamie_Farrelly/browsers-are-broken-but-n...

Saw a similar post submitted on the front page just there so might as well post this!

Reminds me of an article I wrote up about tracking who's talking to who on WhatsApp: https://medium.com/p/finding-out-if-2-people-are-chatting-to...

Just like http://Fomocoin.org/whitepaper.pdf

Disclosure: I wrote this "whitepaper"

Because the sites that have set up the paywall will report the extension and get it taken down, happened to an extension that I made a while back that had a similar idea.