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Ask HN: How to find non-remote office or hybrid jobs?

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Most job search engines have added "remote friendly" or "remote only" options to filter positions by, but I haven't found anywhere that makes it easy to find jobs that are specifically in person, or at least hybrid. I'm just getting out of a remote job, and I'm hoping for my next one to have a strong in-person component to it.

As an aside, I know this is a hot button issue for a lot of folks, but I'd prefer this thread not devolve into arguing over the merits of remote vs office. Not trying to make a statement here, just trying to see if there's a tool to help me find what I want!

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I also had a similar problem at some point, where it wasn't possible to use readily available filtering options to find the very narrow niche of job postings that I was looking for. So I hacked together a custom data pipeline that 1) scrapes search engine results every day 2) downloads those page results as HTML content to my laptop 3) breaks down every page into sections 4) for each section, computes several scores based on the presence or absence of certain words or terms, using text similarity tools wherever necessary 5) presents a fresh top-down, custom-scored list of job postings that were just seen on that day for the first time.

To give you an idea of the kind of custom-crafted query I'm using:

  'site:jobs.lever.co inurl:apply data engineer'

The codebase isn't open-source, but I can share it with you if you're interested.

> I haven't found anywhere that makes it easy to find jobs that are specifically in person, or at least hybrid.

In person (with some flexibility/hybrid allowances) is still the default on most platforms. Go on LinkedIn and search jobs by location.

Anecdotally, for software engineering jobs in my area I'd say only 10-15% aren't primarily remote options. It seems that a lot of companies in my area are specifically moving their engineering teams remote, while keeping other teams in office.

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