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Feds Take USAjobs.gov Back From Monster, Performance Tanks
dcblogs writes "Complaints about the performance of USAjobs.gov, the government's central website for job applicants, are piling up after the U.S. took control this month of the site from Monster.com. The government's official Facebook page has seen nothing but negative comments from users about lag time, search engine failures, and other problems since the U.S. Office of Personnel Management built a new site. The government employs more than 2.6 million people. Linda Rix, the co-CEO of Avue Technologies Corp., a federal contractor who has tested the site, said this about the federal effort: 'They are a personnel management agency, they are not a technology company, and this clearly demonstrates that they don't have the technology skills to be able to do this.'" They're working on it, though — one of their recent Facebook updates says, "Quick update: The three new blade servers have increased our capacity and the system is running smoothly."
everything our Gov't tried to do tanks dong.
Organization ditches outsourced vendor, launches redesign, massive traffic, servers strained, iron and squids are added, site is back.
Too bad you didn't read the article. Or the Facebook page.
Even with the site up and running as fast as it can, the UI is still horrible and nearly unusable. It's buggy as hell, where people searching USAjobs for "DE" jobs finding jobs in Germany and not Delaware. Despite this being a website for US jobs.
And if you look at the Facebook page right now you will notice that the site isn't working for the majority of people. They're getting stuck in endless auto-reply email loops, or getting logged out in the middle of using the site, or having job postings being randomly deleted, or the search failing, all happening after they "fixed" the servers.
So, sorry, this is not a "non-story." This is yet another instance of government proving that where private enterprise can, public government simply cannot.