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Silicon Valley Job Boards

If you know of other resources, please send them to me. If you find a site has closed, let me know so I can remove it.

The Top Job Boards

Sign up for these automated email alerts. Set these to Daily. You must apply as soon as the job is posted. Companies get so many replies that they ignore whoever replies after 48 hours.

Glassdoor.com and Indeed.com

Glassdoor.com is far away the most useful job board. It also gives you reviews of the company by current/past employees. Is the company truly innovative, or they just say that? Does the CEO inspire the team, or is he just a jerk? What are salary ranges for your job title? I've worked in many companies and I've seen managers who jerk workers around on salary. Glassdoor lets you know what companies are paying.
Indeed.com includes two useful tools: Table of Salaries: See trends and comparisons of salaries for your job. Add multiple jobs and compare the salaries (e.g., "blogger vs. webmaster vs. journalist"). This will give you backup info when you ask for your raise. Trends in Job Listings: In a dead-end job? Try "blogger, webmaster, journalist" and see which one is rising or dropping!

Work at a Startup?

These job boards specialize in openings at venture-backed startups. Be careful. Talk with experienced people first. Read my page about working at startups.

StartUpHire.com
StartUply.com
StartupZone.com
Startupjobboard.com
VentureFizz.com (jobs at Boston and NYC startups)
VentureLoop.com
VentureBeat.com

General SV Job Boards

Post your resume to these job boards and sign up for the automated daily emails of new jobs.

List of Venture Capitalists

So you're ready to work at a startup. VCs avoid recruiters in order to reduce expenses. This means VCs have lists of jobs for the companies they are creating. A typical VC company manages about 25-50 startups. Here are several VC companies:

Kleiner Perkins
Menlo Ventures
Hummer Winblad
Bessemer Venture Partners
Brentwood VC
Digital Technology Partners
Idea Lab
Sequoia Capital
Red Leaf
Partech
Draper VC
There's also Yahoo's List of Venture Capitalists

These are also useful:

Craigslist and Oodle.com have RSS feeds for their pages (Oodle.com is a collection of US classified ads.) This means you can use an RSS reader to notify you of new jobs. Learn to Use an RSS Reader.

List of SV Recruiters, Ranked by Size

There are over 250 recruiting agencies in Silicon Valley. The best ones are specialized (for example, they place only chip engineers) and small (only one or two people with deep connections to their industry.) Here are the twenty-six largest recruiting agencies. (List from the Silicon Valley Business Journal, January 2000.)

This list is not a recommendation. Most agencies are honest, but a few are not. In fact, some are scoundrels. Why do I list them anyway? As Chairman Deng of the Chinese Communist Party once said: "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." And some of these cats are very dark indeed. So keep your eyes open and talk with others who've dealt with that agency.

The smaller agencies put much more effort into building long-term relationships. So start at the bottom and work your way up.