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Thanks for checking it out and your feedback! I can make some changes to hopefully clear up some confusion.

On Jobiki, we don't have job postings. Just companies and data about them. So the "minimum salary" and "developer" searches are more job related, while we are more company related. Either way, helpful feedback.

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As for the "proper walls and a proper door" aspect, are there developer/traditional employee jobs in Europe that can have a real office? In the US, unless you are a manager, executive, very experienced employee, you don't usually get an actual office. Maybe its more common in Europe?

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At least in Scandinavia I'd say it's fairly common to have a real office. It seems the cubicle thing never really caught on here, but now there's a trend toward open plan offices, unfortunately. Software companies seem to be among the worst in this regard.

I have a real, quiet office with lots of daylight. That's actually one of the reasons I'm staying at this job. That, and the fact that I'm not subjected to low-status micromanagement techniques like Scrum. In short, I have working conditions befitting a qualified adult.

Individual offices for developers are unusual in the US these days, but that's exactly why someone would want that information. There are also shared offices and team rooms.

"Pod" seems to mean completely different things to different people.

"Pet friendly" workplaces tend to be noisy and discriminate against people with allergies, so some users will want to filter them out.

Even if you don't want to track current openings, what kind of jobs a company has is important information.

Thanks for the response. That's very true. We've also been toying with different verbiage for "Pods", as I would even agree, could be many different things.

And good note on the "pet friendly" environment.

We in the processes of adding that information to outline what positions a company hires for. (Whether or not they are currently open or not) Well, more what departments that a company hires for. Going all the way down to job title seems a bit too granular, maybe I am wrong? But by department seems a happy medium?

> are there developer/traditional employee jobs in Europe that can have a real office?

Yes. Maybe not every single developer; there might be two or three or four to an office, but it's still an office with walls and a door. There are companies with more open spaces and twenty developers to a room, but the (much) smaller ones are the usual case from what I've seen. ("Europe" is a big place, of course.)

Very interesting. Sounds like something we need to look into. Thanks for the feedback.

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