If you're looking for jobs on Indeed I'm confused as to what you're doing. I found nothing useful there when looking in February, meanwhile LinkedIn was incredibly useful.
Did about 15 interviews and accepted an offer. No issues.
Indeed never had a single attractive company to apply to in that time: It was all consulting.
It may be a ___location thing, but in the upper midwest I see just absolute garbage on LinkedIn and just mostly garbage on Indeed. Both are full of consultancy garbage, but LinkedIn refuses to show me local jobs. I suspect they don't want to return a mostly empty search page, so they fill the results with Accenture consulting listing that are supposedly for my smallish metro. Indeed at least shows me local listing.
Although my situation might be a hit niche for this board, since I'm in a small area and I'm not interested in remote work for mental health reasons. But odd that a geography change causes such a complete reversal of which site is better. LinkedIn is still worth it for the professional network features, but honestly I kinda would prefer the Craigslist interface since that is actually searchable.
I'm a tech lead in France with a detailed resume and LinkedIn sometimes shows me positions as a nurse in the US. No clue how their algorithm works, but I'm not highly confident in its quality :)
My last search, Indeed was great. They did free, decent resume consultation with me, and assigned me some rando to point out some good listings to apply for here and there (that surprisingly were generally well curated). Got several interviews and a job in short order.
(no affiliation, they just were surprisingly helpful... I still don't know why, my situation at the time did not make me an amazing candidate or anything)
I’ve noticed that many applicants for positions at my company from Indeed.com are entirely unqualified. Often truck drivers, etc. for a software engineering role and the resume will have no engineering related experience.
I’ve been told that many of these applicants are people applying to jobs they have no hopes of getting interviewed for. In many states you must prove you are actively looking for a job to collect unemployment benefits.
Man I thought it was just me, but yeah Indeed is truly terrible. My only way of getting interviews has been linkedin (both applying to and getting messaged) or directly applying on company's websites thus far in my career.
Are there any other job boards that are actually authentic?
Agree with this. Forgot they removed the board as it’s been kind of a while now.
One thing I didn’t really like was having your stack overflow profile be relevant in hiring decisions - probably good for some/many devs though
I heard GlassDoor also has jobs but I never used them, only LinkedIn and Indeed (I'm EU-based).
Never got hired through Indeed but they have a few jobs that aren't on LinkedIn.
Also, is it me not knowing to use Indeed or does their interface not support the most basic thing? EU-wide search. With LinkedIn I type "European Union" in the ___location box, shows me all EU. Indeed, I have to select every individual country, it's much more limiting and I'm getting bored fast.
Sure, I can select "United States" but dudes, having EU countries listed individually with no option of doing a whole area search is like having to manually search "Arkansas" or "Oklahoma" jobs in the US, it's retarded and myopic to say the least.
I can’t figure out why there seems to be a new heavily advertised jobs/employment site every couple of years. The first one I remember was monster.com. Now it’s Indeed. There have been a number of others. Why do these sites spring up, seem to be everywhere, and then get replaced after a couple of years?
If you're looking for jobs on Indeed I'm confused as to what you're doing. I found nothing useful there when looking in February, meanwhile LinkedIn was incredibly useful.
Did about 15 interviews and accepted an offer. No issues.
Indeed never had a single attractive company to apply to in that time: It was all consulting.