Engineers Recruit Engineers With Hackruiter (YC S10)

I'm curious how this works out. My perception is that hiring is intrinsically hard, and whether you have engineers or HR doing the recruiting, it will remain hard. I would absolutely, totally love to be proven wrong on this though.

Best of luck. I have a feeling the incentives for hiring are out of whack and need a correction.<p>What is your fee structure like? Do you take 25% of what an engineer would make their first year like other recruiters? How will you avoid becoming corrupt like most other recruiters?

The hints on the bottom bar are a nice touch. I kept refreshing the page to see them all. Also found out about the keyboard shortcuts that way! (Hint: Press ?)

I understand the problem. Recruiting engineers is hard, but is engineers recruiting engineers sustainable? Do they hire more engineers to do recruiting?

Do you have plans to expand beyond New York or the San Francisco Bay Area?

The site looks fantastic, and those are all A+ companies to apply to. I especially like that their roadmap involves developing intelligent ways to search for new jobs (like by languages in use – why has it taken this long for such an obvious filter?).

Good luck, this is a good idea. The problem is not just compensation:<p>I believe there are tons of talented developers "locked up" in large corporations due to health insurance / health benefits, especially those with kids. Universal health insurance would help start-ups and small business compete with the Facebook's and Google's and also Bank of America's as health care would become an "even playing field".<p>Currently most small business and start-ups cannot compete with the health care and other benefit cost structures large American firms can achieve.<p>In fact, lots of corporate roll-ups exist only to reduce benefit costs - think of them as large health insurance providers.

I hope this goes beyond the software engineering field eventually.

What I like about this is that it's trying to help solve the number one problem in the software field. Which is not some esoteric or fancy computing problem, and is not a hardware issue, etc. It's the fact that the demand for folks who can do software, and well, far exceeds the supply of such folks. Especially ones who are available, interested and affordable. Trying to take even a tiny bite, percentage-wise, out of a very large pie is always promising.

the hiring business of engineers is big money. This isn't anything new and its sad to such good engineers chase theall mighty dollar instead of building something of real value.