GitHub Jobs

The important piece to remember is that this costs companies $300 per posting on sites like Github ($350 for JoS, $400 on 37Signals), but $0 to post on their own site. So companies like Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/jobs</a>) are still going to post on their site first, and are only going to post their hard-to-fill jobs on these boards.<p>So yay for GitHub and 37Signals for offering more alternatives to Dice and Craigslist, but remember that the best jobs still come directly from the employer's website.<p>(Speaking of Twitter, am I the only one who loves their new recruting video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6epAkC9wg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6epAkC9wg</a>)

The search thing says "filter by city, state, zip code or area", which seems a bit US centric. You already have a job listing in Germany:<p><a href="http://jobs.github.com/positions/1dd0bfda-a3c0-11df-9efb-0beb9df2c0da" rel="nofollow">http://jobs.github.com/positions/1dd0bfda-a3c0-11df-9efb-0be...</a><p>But if you search for 'Germany', it doesn't turn up.

Looks good, just try to keep it free of recruitment agents. I have seen lots of job websites rendered useless once recruitment agents start posting – that is, you have no idea what company you are applying for.<p>Also, could you add flags, like mentioning if there's help for relocation. I am interested in jobs located in nearby countries, but don't want to waste their time if they only want local candidates. I know from friends, that some companies seem to provide lots of support including temporary accommodation, yet barely mention it.

Every time someone makes one of these I'm just dumbfounded by how much money there is in it. I mean granted, they're sideline businesses for the three I'm most familiar with, but they are sideline businesses which would pay for almost a full engineering team...

I'm happy this exists. I'm disappointed it is so US-centric again. There are other countries, and a 'filter by state, zip code' does not cut it. (Yes, yes, some European company could - and probably should - create a similar site.)

My question is how much difference will there be between job posting here and on other niche boards. I searched in Chicago and everyone on the GitHub jobs is also on the Joel on Software's job board. Maybe the results are better for other places that have more good software jobs.<p>Are there too many job boards chasing the same quality listings?

what would be great is a filter to show jobs that allow telecommuting, and what percentage of the job is onsite. Something like at <a href="http://jobs.rubynow.com/" rel="nofollow">http://jobs.rubynow.com/</a> Makes it enormously more useful for us freelancers

Any reason (I can't think of) why they might choose such long URL's for the job listings rather than something short like /positions/air-bnb/ruby-developer-needed/?<p>Just makes the URL's a bit more readable especially if we're sharing them about :)

I was going to say why do we need another one but there has been a surprising number of jobs posted in the short time it has been up. Guess it cant hurt to have another board for smaller type companies.

I actually IM'ed HR at this when I first heard about the launch. Seems the liked the idea ( <a href="http://jobs.github.com/companies/Acquia" rel="nofollow">http://jobs.github.com/companies/Acquia</a> )<p>:)

Neat! The title made me think it was job positions open at github, this is far more useful. Not that I'm 'available', but I know some people that are and I'll pass it on.<p>thanks for building this!

Ugh. Don't forget to put "NO RECRUITERS" in your job ads.

nice clean design, clearly inspired by: <a href="http://careers.joelonsoftware.com/Jobs" rel="nofollow">http://careers.joelonsoftware.com/Jobs</a>

If I search for jobs in California, only location-agnostic jobs shows up. But there are clearly openings in the Bay Area, etc.

Got an ad that said "Remember The Milk is hiring: Software Engineer (Scala) <i>in Anywhere</i>"... Awkward wording at best...

I was expecting to do it's contextual-job-ad magic without me having to upload a resume, so was disappointed.<p>But a great product nonetheless.

Seems like a good idea to advertise developer jobs where the hackers are. Keep up the good work githubbers.

Needs better filtering options.