Salary
Every role names a number
No "competitive", no "depending on experience". A range, or the listing does not go up.
A job description
should describe the job.
Vocation lists roles with the salary, the team you would join, and what the first ninety days actually involve. If a company will not say, we do not list it.
Above Profiles and roles, matched by proximity
Senior Backend Engineer €78,000 – €92,000 Product Designer €62,000 – €71,000 Data Analyst €54,000 – €63,000 Head of People €70,000 – €80,000 Technical Writer €52,000 – €60,000 Staff Engineer €98,000 – €115,000 Support Lead €46,000 – €54,000 Finance Manager €64,000 – €74,000
Most listings are written to attract everyone, which is how they end up describing no one.
We ask for the opposite.
A profile is a point.
A shortlist is a radius
You describe what you can do and what you expect to be paid. We hold that as a position. When a role opens nearby you hear about it, with the distance shown, so you can judge the stretch yourself.
Nothing is scored behind your back. Every match arrives with the reason it was made, and the roles that did not match stay exactly where they were.
A listing that will not name a salary is asking you to bid against yourself.
Which is why every role here carries a number, before you click.
The part nobody puts
on a careers page
Most applications are never opened. We publish our own numbers every quarter, because a market where only the flattering ones get shared is a market where nothing improves.
It also sets expectations. Four offers from a thousand applications is not a personal failure — it is the base rate, and knowing it changes how you spend a Sunday.
What a listing has to do to get here
Process
The steps, before you apply
How many interviews, who you will actually meet, and how long each stage took the last person.
Replies
An answer either way
Companies that stop replying stop being listed. We check at four weeks and we do remove them.
What happens after you apply
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You send it
Day 0
No account needed. The company receives your message and whatever you attached, and nothing else about you.
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It gets opened
Day 1 – 10
You can see when. If nobody has opened it after ten days, we are the ones who chase, not you.
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Interviews, as advertised
Week 2 – 6
The number of rounds was on the listing before you applied. If it grows, that is a change to the listing and we publish it.
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An answer either way
By week 4
Every company here commits to a reply, including a no. One line is enough; silence is not.
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And if they go quiet
Week 4 onward
The listing comes down and we tell everyone who applied that it has. It is the only enforcement we have, so we use it.
A rule is worth what
the enforcement is worth
Every company here commits to answering within four weeks. The commitment is the easy part. Making it stick took three quarters of taking listings down from companies that ignored it.
The measurement is the same each time and taken the same way: we ask the people who applied whether they ever heard back, and we count the ones who say no.
Journal
Everything we have written →Start with one role, read properly
No account needed to browse. Make one when you want to be told about roles that open near you.