What we believe

The job market is too important to feel like a spam inbox.

A job search is high-stakes. People are deciding where they spend their time, how they support families, and what they do next. The product has to be built with that seriousness.

Real jobs first

We collect jobs directly from company websites in real time and filter out external recruiting agencies and fake consulting firms.

Search that respects context

A title match is not enough. The product is built around location rules, compensation, skills, seniority, company signals, and job description details.

No pay-to-win job discovery

The job seeker experience should be useful before it is monetized. Relevance, freshness, and quality should matter more than who paid for attention.

Our story

Built from frustration, rebuilt by job seeker feedback.

The first HiringCafe experiment started with a simple observation: job boards had a lot of postings, but not a lot of trust. Search results were noisy, reposts were everywhere, and useful filters were missing.

The early launch hit Reddit and Blind, moved faster than the system could handle, and turned into a bigger mission: build the job search engine we wanted to use ourselves.

Leadership & Founders

Hamed Nilforoshan

Hamed Nilforoshan

Co-Founder

CS PhD at Stanford; data science at Airbnb and Snapchat

Ali Mir

Ali Mir

Co-Founder

ex-SWE at Meta, DoorDash, Rippling

Jure Leskovec

Jure Leskovec

Early Investor & Advisor

Stanford CS professor; ex-Chief Scientist at Pinterest

Job seeker trust

Shared when it made the search less painful.

HiringCafe spread because job seekers shared it with other job seekers. That feedback loop still shapes the filters, ranking, saved workflows, and data quality work.

Feedback and support

Email ali [at] hiring.cafe or post in r/hiringcafe for product feedback, bug reports, confusing job results, and job-search questions.

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FAQ

Questions people ask before trusting a new job search tool

What is HiringCafe?

HiringCafe is a job search engine built to make job discovery faster, cleaner, and more trustworthy. We index jobs, organize them with richer filters, and help people find roles without the noise that makes many job boards hard to use.

Is HiringCafe free for job seekers?

Yes. Job seekers can search jobs, use filters, save searches, build boards, and explore opportunities without paying to access the core search experience.

Where do the jobs come from?

HiringCafe finds jobs directly from company websites instead of relying only on reposted listings from traditional job boards. That helps job seekers get closer to the original source and avoid some of the noise that builds up across the hiring web.

How does HiringCafe reduce job-board noise?

We keep improving systems that detect stale postings, duplicate roles, weak matches, and low-quality listings. The product also gives job seekers controls to hide companies, filter precisely, and save high-signal searches.

Can HiringCafe help me track jobs and organize my job search?

Yes. You can save jobs, save searches, organize roles into boards, hide companies you do not want to see, and return to a cleaner workflow later.

How can I report a bad listing or send feedback?

The fastest route is the HiringCafe subreddit or email. The team reads job seeker feedback closely and often ships improvements directly from reports.

How does the Talent Agent work?

The HiringCafe Talent Agent asks you questions about your career goals and job search needs, and learns about your qualifications, and then searches through our comprehensive inventory of jobs, reads the descriptions, and finds jobs that match your needs, and where you are likely to be a good fit for the employer. You don’t have to waste your time reviewing search results and reading job descriptions for lots of irrelevant jobs, and you don’t have to worry about missing out on great opportunities because you don’t have enough time to keep up with all the jobs being posted. Talent Agent does the job searching and filtering for you, and sends you only the best matches.

Is HiringCafe legit?

Funny, we do get this question a lot. Our product is free. We have a comprehensive inventory of jobs with no spam or recruiting agencies, and we offer the most powerful job searching tool built around the needs of job seekers, not recruiters and employers. So, there must be a catch, right? There isn’t. If we want to fulfil our mission of building the world’s best job search tool, we need to put the job seeker first. And we believe that once people fall in love with our product, we can deliver value for employers, too.

The next chapter

Find your next role with HiringCafe.

Search real opportunities, use precise filters, save the roles worth revisiting, and spend more time applying to jobs that actually fit.