Nice name and clean interface!<p>I'm glad to see Remote as a location, but due to the free-form writing in the original posts, there are errors. For example, "Haskell dev at Standard Chartered Bank" is listed under Remote, but the post itself says "Remote work isn’t an option". The post for Button similarly doesn't allow remote, but uses "Remote - no" to convey that.<p>I've been planning on building some filtering for the Who is Hiring threads, and I've pretty much determined that some degree of manual review will be needed. In the most recent thread, I found a huge number of posts containing "remote" which don't actually allow remote working. "No remote" is fairly common and easy to filter out, but there are any number of variations that you can't anticipate a priori.
There is no way to view the data on the HN website. Please add a link to a source, or at least
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring</a>
The only way to deal with the unstructured nature of the "Who is hiring" posts is to have some sort of schema that can be processed. I also wanted to do something similar (imagine it with dc.js, for example!), but the data is too diverse.<p>A sample entry could be:<p><pre><code> company: 'Some Company',
jobs: [
{
dev_type: 'Web/Mobile/Data',
dev_sub_type: 'Frontend/Backend/DevOps/Android/iOS',
visa: 'Required/Not required/Transfer only/Sponsored',
remote: 'Yes/No/Maybe'
locations: [
'SF',
'London',
...
]
},
...
]
</code></pre>
All posts could have a METADATA: compressed_json entry that can be processed by the site and displayed/filtered accordingly. Perhaps it could be built manually at the beginning until it catches up.
This is cool, nice to look at other projects analyzing this data. I publish HN Hiring Trends, <a href="http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/</a> , that watches the various technology terms being mentioned in the postings.<p>Once thing I changed to was just including top level comments and no replies/discussion of the posting. Do you handle similarly?
Great project, however I've noticed some listings are missing. For example, from April, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303396" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303396</a> there was a posting from Questrade. It's missing on this website.
Love this. I was able to get more useful information about remote working than I was able to when reading the original who is hiring April post. This is probably a good time to suggest changing the format of the who is hiring posts. Would be great if the use of a standard form template is encouraged. That would make an effort to parse the data much easier, and would make the reading of the original post easier, and would probably make it easier for companies to create their posts too. Win for all?
I'm surprised nobody else has requested this, but any chance for a state category? If you really want to impress me, perhaps a warm and cold climate section or maybe have to shovel snow vs. unlikely to shovel snow. :P Gotta set my priorities straight…
Although I'm sure companies won't complain about the additional publicity, are there any concerns of copyright issues with scraping and republishing the text from other HN posts?
Maybe an error but the entry for <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305360" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305360</a> is getting confused with Melbourne, Australia. I think is should be under Melbourne, Florida.<p>I am from Melbourne which made me looked at the Australian entries.
Very cool idea, fun name, practical interface. I like it.<p>Perhaps add a simple tagging system where users can add tags to hiring posts. That way you don't need to comb through every post and hopefully you crowdsource some helpful taxonomic data.
Useful, but falls short for surrounding areas of Los Angeles like Venice (neighborhood of LA) & Santa Monica (adjacent and much a part of LA). I imagine there are issues like this for other cities and regions too.
I was surprised at how few are hiring in Los Angeles. I'm thinking about going to grad school there. Can anyone in LA comment on the state of your tech economy?
A bit of a side note, it seems someone created an "alternate" who is hiring bot or account:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_whoishiring" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_whoishiring</a>
Really nicely done. I did something similar as a blog post a good while ago and it was quite popular. The results haven't changed much it seems.<p>One comment I got was that I had just mapped where HN users are in the world.
Very cool, and interesting to see the results. I immediately looked for a 'trends' feature to see how cities rank change over time, or maybe this could be plotted?
This is really cool. Thanks for creating this. I'm not looking at the moment, but I'm always super interested by the Who's Hiring threads.
Boston is gaining and should probably be gaining more if lumped together with Cambridge.<p>Less sure about lumping San Francisco and Palo Alto. Thoughts?
I should mention that I and other hiring managers I've talked with are moving away from posting on the "Who is hiring?" post.<p>It was pretty useful ~6 months ago. But, the amount of spam generated from recruiting and sourcing firms, various startups trying to push their revolutionary new online coding tools, etc. is pretty ridiculous and many of them, especially the SV-area startups, have been quite aggressive (e.g., phone calls and switching to my personal e-mail address after I told them I was not interested).<p>Posting jobs on twitter has been a far more effective sourcing tool than HN "Who is hiring" has become recently, at least in the free space.