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Structuring a Job Board: Hierarchy, Matrix, or Both
A job board currently organizes listings in a strict hierarchy: Industry → Role Type → Individual Listings (e.g., Technology → Software Engineering → "Senior Backend Engineer at Acme"). Users complain they can't find remote-only listings, or listings under a certain salary, without opening dozens of individual postings to check.
- Diagnose why the current pure-hierarchy structure produces this specific complaint.
- What organization scheme addresses the complaint directly, and how would it change the actual UI, not just the underlying data model?
- Would you replace the existing hierarchy entirely or layer the new scheme on top of it? Justify the choice.
- What's one risk of the change you'd want to validate with users before shipping it?
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