Simply Hired Blog

Routine maintenance

Hold your horses, everybody. I know that Thursday Night is prime job hunting time, but you'll just have to catch the late night special on CBS. We're going to have some routine maintenance causing downtime tonight at about 10:00pm. It shouldn't be down long (less than an hour), so just keep drinking that coffee and get back to finding your dream job (or dreaming about finding your job?) at 11.

UPDATE 02-JUN-2005 11:33 pm:We're all geared up and rarin to go! All went smoothly.

Bad RAM! No Donut!

Two of the servers running our shiny site have some not-so-shiny RAM. The website will be down from 14:00 - 14:15 this afternoon to replace the RAM.

Saturday Night Not-So-Live

Um... looks like we're having some DB downtime currently.

We rolled out some cool new features last night, but seems like a few of our servers decided to let their hair down and party this evening.

We'll update the blog as soon as we're back up & rolling.

(* by the way -- if you're looking for a job on a Saturday night, we really think you may need to get out more often.)

UPDATE 10:42pm: we crashed the party, rudely tore the lampshade off our biggest DB server, and told him to get back to work. site is now back up & running. such spoil sports we are.

we now return you to your regularly-scheduled job searches.

More Hamsters

You guys love us, you really do. So much so, that the hamsters powering our site are getting tired. We've arranged for more to be delivered Tuesday night, but as a result, our site will be down sometime between 9:00pm-12:00pm PST.

p.s. No hamsters were harmed during the blogging of this post.

UPDATE 06-APR-2005 12:23 am: Our hamsters are happier now; they all have friends. Our hardware upgrade was successful, and the site is back up and running.

Cunning and Guile

First, I want to thank everyone who took the time to submit feedback and jokes since we launched. Please keep them coming. (Especially the jokes.)

I want to apologize for being slow to respond. Since we abandoned the idea of a crack team of super-chimps, it’s only been Dave and myself slugging away at the onslaught of email. And everyone knows we have no game compared to super-chimps.

Since we launched a few weeks back, we have been responding to your feedback by tweaking the site, and continuously improving both the results and de-duplication efforts. As we pursue this more aggressively, you will see fluctuations in our job counts and results.

You may have also noticed that we slipped in a few modifications:

• Search should now handle your keywords in a more intelligent manner, as opposed to the old way, which we have creatively termed "the less intelligent manner."
  
• Error messages, which before were generic and silly, are now more specific and silly.
  
• While ambiguous locations used to cause the system to spit at you, it now politely gives you a list of choices. But don’t toss that poncho yet.
  

Coming soon: The ability to fine tune your searches, customize your results and get cleaner clothes without fading.

Oh, and to all the candidates applying for the position of Clown Chauffeur, we are sorry, but this position has been filled.

I also want to apologize for being so silent on this blog. I may be slow to post, but I make up for it with cunning and guile.