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5 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Taylor Desseyn on why job boards are flooded with noise. Engineering managers now use Signal group chats to share candidates, prefer direct company careers pages, and tap personal networks. Some run initiatives like a Laid Off Lounge to connect displaced workers with hiring managers.

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I have a group chat of like 15 engineering managers or so on like a Signal group chat. And I just kind of ping them and ask various questions. And I asked them, I said, hey, when you guys post jobs right now, where do you post right now? Almost all of them said, we pretty much only post on our careers page now. So the career page allows less riffraff to get through. And every single engineering manager was like, I immediately go to my network. I mean, we even have— Yeah. We have a Laid Off Lounge series where we bring in like a guest speaker just to talk about, you know, And I try to get hiring managers in with