There are many free job search websites — LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, Reed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter — just to name a few. But there are three issues you'll run into when using these websites to look for software engineering jobs at the top tech companies.
The time it takes to find jobs at top tech companies within the mass of other listings
The fear that even if you do find jobs to apply to, you may have missed a better opportunity
Job applications made through these websites very rarely receive any response
Issue number three is simple enough to solve. Once you’ve found a job you want to apply to using one of these free websites, just apply directly on the hiring company's website, instead of through the job search website. This will greatly improve your chances of hearing back. That leaves us with issues one and two. Let's look into the root cause of these issues before we look for the optimal solution.
The root cause of these issues is the vast number of job listings from smaller, lesser known companies, on these websites. This mountain of listings arises due to the business model of these websites — they allow companies to pay to post their job openings. This creates an incentive for these websites to get as many job posts as possible, no matter the quality of the opportunities.
Sometimes these job posts are even offered to companies for free, with the job search website then charging the company to promote their free job posts. This is an accidental admission from these job search websites that many applicable candidates will not find the job post without the company paying to promote it above the vast mass of other posts.
Simply put, even if all of the top tech companies were to post their jobs on these sites, or these sites were to scrape these listings from the company career pages and post them, you're probably not going to find many of the exciting opportunities hidden in the sea of job posts.

Such a filter would help you find the job you're looking for faster, bringing down the amount of time you spend scrolling through their paid job listings. It would also drive down the volume of paid clicks on job listings from smaller, lesser known companies and recruitment agencies that software engineers currently have to settle for when they are unable to find the exciting jobs at top tech companies.
Having you scroll through reams and reams of paid listings is their main objective. A simple top tech company filter would help you and hurt them. They seem to prefer it the other way around.
Instead of solving the root cause of issues one and two by reducing the volume of low quality job posts or helping you filter through them, these free websites have built additional product lines that rely on the premise that your job search will take a long time, require many job applications, and will ultimately yield low quality results.
Many of these free websites now offer automated cover letter writing services. They're assuming that you won't want to write the cover letter yourself because you're left applying to the low quality listings that don't excite you when you can't find the exciting jobs at top tech companies.
Some websites offer bulk application services, knowing that you're going to have to make many applications due to the low quality and response rates of their listings. They not only like that fact, they optimise for it, as many of these free sites get paid per click or per job application.
Some offer paid subscriptions to message hiring managers directly, assuming you'll struggle to connect with employers through standard applications. Again, they opt for capitalising on the low response rates of their low quality listings instead of improving the quality.
Another way some of these free job search websites make money is by selling recruitment services, powered by your personal data. In other words, you pay with your private data as they sell access to you as a top tech candidate, to smaller, non-established companies and the recruitment agencies who represent them.
The personal data of software engineers, looking for positions at the top tech companies, is very valuable. These software engineers make up the top tech talent in the world, interested in only the most sought after and highly regarded positions at well known top tech companies. The software engineers using The Acclaimed.dev Realtime Jobs Database are assured that their personal data will never be shared.
The Acclaimed.dev Realtime Jobs Database provides you with an up-to-date database of open software engineering positions at the most sought after top tech companies in the world. And only the top tech companies. No paid job posts, no promoted posts, and no recruiter access. Just a clean, focused database for software engineers who don't want to miss opportunities at the most sought after top tech companies.
The jobs in the database are sourced directly from the career pages of the top tech companies — so you can be sure that your job search is comprehensive and you aren't missing any opportunities.
We provide a global catalogue of companies that are sought after by software engineers all over the world. In addition to the globally recognised names, you may find regional companies included in the catalogue that are highly sought after within specific geographic, linguistic, or regulatory regions. All companies in the catalogue are automatically searched for jobs by default. The companies are searched frequently, most will be updated daily.
You can search the company catalogue on the catalogue page at any time to see which companies are included. We are constantly adding to the catalogue, so it is likely that you will find new companies being added regularly. To be included in the catalogue, a company must be highly sought after by software engineers — globally or regionally. We do not accept applications from companies that are not highly sought after by software engineers.
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Having covered the issues with the free job search websites, let's take a look at the final alternative approach to see if we can help get you into your new job at least 0 hours faster than the alternative solution.
The brute-force approach would be to manually search the career pages for all of the top tech companies. You would likely want to do this every day to make sure that you don't miss any exciting opportunities at top tech companies. This task would be very time consuming, taking more than a full 8-hour work day, every day, to check just a few hundred of the top tech companies, if you estimate spending 1-2 minutes on each company's website. If you're a full-time student or are currently employed then this is probably not feasible.
Even if you're currently between jobs and not in full-time education, spending 8-hours job searching every day would leave you with no time to prepare for your coding interviews, making you less prepared than the candidates who spend this time preparing for interviews. Such preparation may include revising the core data structures and algorithms (DSA), practicing common coding interview questions, preparing for the behavioural questions that test your soft skills, and practicing systems design problems.
So, manually checking the career pages of all of the top tech companies would leave you with less time for interview preparation, reducing the likelihood of you outperforming the other candidates applying for the same positions at highly sought after top tech companies, and who did spend this time preparing for their interviews, rather than job searching.
There is no subscription required. Get access to the full search results for 1 week, 1 month, or 3 months with a one-time payment. Start with one week of access for $8 to see the full search results of jobs at top tech companies that match your search criteria.
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Even if you don't find the position you are looking for right away, you get access for a full week, month, or three months depending on the license you purchase, so you can continue to check back each day until you find an exciting opportunity at one of the most sought after top tech companies. But we don't want you to purchase a license and find no jobs that meet your criteria, so go ahead and use the filter functionality below to check if there are currently any open software engineering opportunities that meet your criteria at the top tech companies.
The Acclaimed.dev Realtime Jobs Database comes with fast and accurate search functionality so that you can easily search for suitable jobs by your specialisation, your desired workplace type, the location of the office for in-person and hybrid roles, the relevant skills required for the role, and the required experience, among other criteria. Your job search preferences will not be shared with anyone.
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