Ask HN: Why is LinkedIn's job search so bad?

I suspect none of it is a mistake. Allowing granular search would not get companies the job advert views they might be “paying for”, and also might reveal the sparseness of the jobs that match your exact criteria.

I spent a few years trying to start my own business. When it was time to look for a job I built something that would ingest job listings, classify them, and create a workflow system for evaluating applications and working through the whole process.

Within a week I'd found a job I really wanted to do at an AI company and aced the interview because I had a great story to tell.

Had my job search ground on I would have declared war on spam job listings on New York's job bank and would have had my systems file complaints about each and every one of them (e.g. supposedly it is a Java job in Syracuse, really it's a COBOL job in Atlanta, it might be there just to not get filled so they can apply for the H-1B lottery)

Incidentally I did find this previous cry from the heart, but it's complaining about a different aspect of LinkedIn's terribleness (keyword search failures):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30159705