As a software engineer, where do you look for jobs these days?

LinkedIn did the trick for my last three jobs.

Apply to many positions, do as much interviews as possible, get a few offers, pick the best.

My dream position would be to work remotely for an US company while living in my small European country and so far LinkedIn isn't helping with that as I mostly find EU based positions. Maybe I will search for jobs here on HN when the time arrives to change my job.

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I got my current gig with a $50K pay bump through a public slack group for devops engineers. There are almost certainly groups out there for software devs if you do some googling for them.

Kind of a non-answer but I am at the point where I hope to continue avoiding jobs. I have another type of startup that I want to try to bootstrap after this one.

The side projects that help are directly in the the niche as my main service and they are my customers. I only do those when I have to because it distracts from building or improving services.

Linkedin is pretty close to cornering the job search market in tech.

I just reply to recruiters on LinkedIn. Lots of startups are still hiring these days, while large company hiring has gone down.

Personal network: complaining to friends about problems I wanted to help solve has yielded my last 3 jobs

There's a kind of hierarchy of search depending on the niche you're looking to move into (e.g., large corporate, FAANG, FAANG-lite or scrappy startup).

I start out with the type of company I want, usually dictated by lessons learned working with previous bad employers. Tech journals, Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, Slashdot, Y Combinator etc. will get you a potential list depending on the scale.

Then it's polling my developer network on LinkedIn to find 2nd or 3rd "hops" away that get me access to that area, and asking someone to setup an introduction. Once introduced, I start trying to figure out if the company is all just a marketing smokescreen, or whether they do indeed do quality engineering.

Then I try and actively connect with recruiters via Indeed or LinkedIn and search their jobs pages - you'd be surprised the number of roles that aren't quite ready to be advertized just yet, but would be top-of-mind for technical recruiters.

Lastly - when I start a proper job search, I go wide! Get about 20 companies like that in the funnel, which might yield 2 or 3 quality interviews and maybe 1 offer. If there's anything you don't like, pull in another 20 companies and go again. It's completely a numbers game.

LinkedIn, I also go through lists of relevant companies in my area and check their Careers page

Jobs look for me on LinkedIn.

Friends I have worked with.