What people complain about in Indeed
20 reported problems name Indeed as what the person is currently using. Below is what they said was missing, and what they resorted to instead.
- Complaints
- 20
- Avg severity
- 3.5/5
- Would pay to fix
- 0
- Industries
- 5
What they wish it did
Capabilities people described needing that Indeed does not give them, taken from the highest-scoring problems first. These are individual accounts written in each person’s own terms, so two entries may describe the same underlying gap in different words.
- Job matching platform that verifies nurse qualifications and routes applications directly to hiring managers, bypassing AI filters
- Direct communication channel between applicants and decision-makers in healthcare facilities
- A hiring platform that pre-screens candidates for reliability and shows up rate before business pays
- Centralized job board dedicated to part-time CPA experience roles with flexible schedules
- Mechanism to verify firms' legitimacy for hours sign-off
- Structured behavioral assessment tool for pre-screening candidates
- Automated trial shift management and payment system
- Job posting platform with AI filtering to reject unqualified international applications
- Geo-targeted job distribution to ensure visibility among local talent
- Analytics to track posting performance and identify why applicants are not seeing the ad
- A job platform that enforces salary transparency and specialty filters for therapy roles
- Application tracking system with automated follow-up reminders and company-specific notes
- Advanced shift-length and schedule-pattern filter for healthcare job searches
- Care-setting exclusion filter (e.g., 'not home health')
- Local market intelligence platform for service businesses
- Industry-specific business management software with pricing tools
- Contractor payroll system tailored for cleaning businesses
- Automated job posting monitoring and alerting for specific employers and keywords
- Digital applicant tracking system with restaurant-specific workflows
- Integrated SMS communication platform for hiring workflows
- Centralized platform aggregating driver reviews, FMCSA data, and company metrics with verified user identities
- Automated job posting aggregator for niche employers
- Automated job posting system that pushes vacancies to multiple platforms and notifies staff when postings are live or removed
- Centralized dashboard for staff to see application status and hiring progress without manual follow-ups
- Specialized real estate job matching platform with credential verification
What they do instead
The manual processes people built around the gap. A long workaround list is the strongest evidence a problem is real: someone is already paying for it in time. Where several people described the same workaround, it is marked.
- applies for remote work at overseas companies to avoid US job boards
- works only 4 shifts a month in nursing due to inability to find other nursing jobs
- uses Indeed to find workers
- uses word of mouth to find workers
- cold emailing small CPA firms individually
- searching on LinkedIn and Indeed for part-time CPA roles
- Uses ADP to pay trial workers but manually collects their info
- Relies on GM's subjective judgment for character assessment
- keeps a manual spreadsheet to track applications: company, role, date applied, follow up date
- Manually scanning indeed and ZipRecruiter listings to guess shift lengths from job descriptions
- Trying to filter out home health by avoiding certain keywords but getting irrelevant results
- Driving 100-200 miles to research competitor wage data
- Planning to use generic Google ads for marketing
- Planning to use Indeed for wage research
- manually checking dozens of hospital career pages
- using a notebook to track applicants
- using personal phone for hiring communication
- checks reviews on Indeed and company websites
- reads FMCSA data
- asks on forums, Facebook groups, or word of mouth
Industries
The problems themselves
Highest opportunity score first.
Nurse cannot find non-LTC jobs because AI job board filters automatically reject her applications, preventing her from reaching hiring managers.
4HighHealthcareJob Search & RecruitmentNurseDirect ConnectHome service owners struggle to find qualified, reliable workers who are not already employed by other shops.
4HighHome ServicesJob Search & RecruitmentTradeHire ProA CPA candidate needs to complete 2,000 experience hours but works full-time in an unrelated job, so struggles to find a part-time, flexible CPA role that requires minimal effort and offers legitimate sign-off.
4HighAccounting & BookkeepingLicensing & CertificationCPAHours ConnectBarbershop owner struggles to fill two empty chairs with skilled barbers due to limited network and ineffective job postings.
4HighHealth, Wellness, and BeautyRecruitment & StaffingClipHireHiring and vetting temporary staff for short job trials is costly, time-consuming, and attracting retaliatory threats from unsuitable candidates.
4HighGeneral Business ServicesSourcing & ProcurementTrialMatch ProAccounting firm struggling to attract qualified audit associate applicants despite a supposedly soft job market, with most applications being irrelevant international candidates.
4HighAccounting & BookkeepingJob Search & RecruitmentTalentFilter ProTherapists lack a job search platform tailored to their specialty, with salary transparency, relevant filters, and protection from recruiter spam and disguised roles.
4HighHealth, Wellness, and BeautyJob Search & RecruitmentTheraMatch ProA nurse working night shifts struggles to pivot to remote roles due to a resume written in clinical language that fails to translate her healthcare skills into terms understood by non-healthcare employers.
4HighMedical PracticeJob Search & RecruitmentPivotRNA former psych nurse wants to find non-home-health nursing jobs with 3-12 hour shifts but cannot filter by shift length on major job boards like Indeed and ZipRecruiter.
3MediumJob Search & RecruitmentJob Search & RecruitmentShiftMatch Nursing Job BoardA new commercial cleaning business owner needs help determining fair pricing, finding local wage data, and accessing specialized software for payroll, contracts, and legal forms.
3MediumGeneral Business ServicesFinancial ManagementCleanBiz ProNurses cannot efficiently discover new job postings on hospital career pages because these postings are not aggregated on major job boards, requiring manual checking of dozens of individual websites.
4HighJob Search & RecruitmentJob Search & RecruitmentTrovrIndependent restaurant owners struggle with hiring because applicant no-show rates are high, enterprise tools are too expensive, and they rely on inefficient manual methods.
3MediumRestaurants & Food ServiceJob Search & RecruitmentRestaurantHire ProTruck drivers lack reliable methods to evaluate trucking companies before applying, as job platforms and recruiters provide insufficient information.
3MediumTrucking & LogisticsJob Search & RecruitmentTruckerInsightJob postings from municipal utilities, PUDs, and co-ops are not listed on major job boards, requiring manual checking of 30+ employer career pages.
4HighJob Search & RecruitmentJob Search & RecruitmentTrovrSchool lunch/recess aides are understaffed due to management failing to post job openings, causing unsafe supervision conditions for 50-60 children.
4HighEducationRecruitment & StaffingStaffSnap: School Staffing HubA licensed real estate broker with 13 years of experience wants to find remote transaction coordinator opportunities but doesn't know where to look for these specific job openings.
3MediumReal EstateJob Search & RecruitmentRealEstateCoordinatorHubA small business owner needs a way to organize and screen job applicants without using expensive job boards or creating manual systems.
2MildGeneral Business ServicesJob Search & RecruitmentHireFlow LitePhysical therapy clinic owner doesn't know which job boards beyond Indeed, Glassdoor, and LinkedIn are effective for finding qualified PT candidates.
2MildHealthcareRecruitment & StaffingPT Hire HubA senior nursing student cannot find nursing residency job postings through current job search methods, missing opportunities while peers are securing positions.
3MediumHealth, Wellness, and BeautyJob Search & RecruitmentNurseResidencyHubA teacher seeking New Jersey teaching positions lacks a centralized, reliable platform where NJ school districts consistently post job openings, forcing them to manually search multiple disparate sources.
3MediumEducationJob Search & RecruitmentTeachConnect NJ
Read this fairly
These are complaints, and only complaints — nobody posts to say their software worked. A high count mostly reflects how many people use Indeed at all, so this page is not a quality judgement and should not be read as one. What it is good for is the shape of the gaps: the specific jobs people could not get done, which are the same whether the tool is popular or not.