Joel on Software -- "Great software jobs, great people"

Joel Spolsky has added a job board to JoelOnSoftware. It is certain to be a great way to reach programmers, developers, admins and testers. There's also a management category and Joel's site is likely read by a good number of biz / tech managers / senior managers. We're excited to see Joel launch a job board as his site has so far stayed away from running ads and this is a good sign that Joel sees jobs as different from general advertising and more of a community generated classified service. Here's a bit from Joel on his new board:

Now, for some details. In order to keep the quality of the listings high this is not going to be a free job listing board. Listings cost $350.
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Now, about the rule we made that you have to post the company name. A lot of recruiters are working on a contingency basis. They don't get paid unless they fill an opening. These recruiters generally don't want to post a company name, because then applicants could go straight to the employer and the recruiter would be cut out of their commission. That's why you see so many job ads in traditional places like classifieds that are totally vague about the specific company where you'd be working.

That, unfortunately, is not going to work for us. Every good software developer I know has a choice of where to work. They don't want to work for a "TOP INVESTMENT BANK". Some investment banks are really nice places to work. Others are sweatshops. Some are ethical. Many are ethically challenged. Some require suits. Others are business casual. That's why we want to know the name of the company that's hiring, and unfortunately that means that recruiters who don't want to reveal the company name are really barking up the wrong tree. Try Craigslist, shugah.

The design is simple and straight-forward and he mentions on his blog that more features are to come.

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