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I've spent 10 years in the classifieds (including jobs) market as a software engineer...

As employee and/or employer I would go for more local/vertical websites/newsletters. There's no community such as StackOverflow outside of it, so you have to narrow down your scope somehow. Posting on LinkedIn is a mess. I've talked with many people looking for devs and they pay a lot of money for a lot of low-quality applications, it's even worse for remote companies: If they specifically state they look for people in EU timezones they'll receive anyway 100+ CVs from India or other countries.

So, LinkedIn is a mess, general job posting websites miss all the stuff a developer/company hiring developers needs, I love HN jobs but it's too much of a niche, remoteok or similar are too broad in scope.

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> If they specifically state they look for people in EU timezones they'll receive anyway 100+ CVs from India or other countries.

If they state EU _timezone_ and they receive applications from India which is *ahead* by 3.30H or Nigeria which is in about the same timezone, I don't see what the problem is.

If they want only people from Europe, they should just say so.


India is not EU timezone. Nigeria is probably fine, but the guy I talked too was specifically referring to India.


Maybe some of those applicants have been willing to move to said timezone?


Plus India is 5/5 and half hours ahead from CET


India is 5.30 from UTC.

I don't why someone in India would have difficulty starting at 11am.

It's understandable if it's the other way around: Someone in the US starting at 4am




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