Tech industry hiring heavily believes in the "fixed mindset." Meaning that people are unable to grow. Combine with extreme risk avoidance, an explosion in the number of stacks, and no appetite for waiting a week for a dev to learn another thing. No hire.
Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?
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#12Collecting resumes then upselling you on a service.
That’s also what the Looking to be Hired thread is scraped for.
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#13I've posted on "Who's hiring" for years now, and hired many engineers from those posts. We reject the vast majority of candidates, and to those who we reject, it might seem like we can't hire "a single candidate." That's not true - if it were, I'd stop posting here!
> if it were, I'd stop posting here! unless you (the royal you) are posting it for other motives other than hiring.
Are you perchance gesturing towards stock owned companies trying to improve their public looks by creating a look of growing via ghost job postings?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if it were, I'd stop posting here! unless you (the royal you) are posting it for other motives other than hiring.
Are you perchance gesturing towards stock owned companies trying to improve their public looks by creating a look of growing via ghost job postings?
No, that couldn’t be it. Yes, the incentive exists for them to do that, but I’m sure their conscious wouldn’t let them lead people on and waste their time like that.
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#15People are searching for people. I'm not in the demo. yet it's interesting to look where the interests are.
And if you look further there are enough of people who were actually hired because of this.
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#16I've posted on "Who's hiring" for years now, and hired many engineers from those posts. We reject the vast majority of candidates, and to those who we reject, it might seem like we can't hire "a single candidate." That's not true - if it were, I'd stop posting here!
> if it were, I'd stop posting here! unless you (the royal you) are posting it for other motives other than hiring.
When I used "we" in my post, it's because I don't make hiring decisions unilaterally.
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#17I got a gig from who's hiring a few years ago. I also interviewed at some other places which were not a fit. Some places never got back to me. It has been a mix.
Re: Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?
#18Tech industry hiring heavily believes in the "fixed mindset." Meaning that people are unable to grow. Combine with extreme risk avoidance, an explosion in the number of stacks, and no appetite for waiting a week for a dev to learn another thing. No hire.
I have seen enough devs being corporate drones and people who say they want to learn but do nothing to be tilting towards “fixed mindset”.
I do have myself as a counter example but that’s small N and as usual always others are lazy ;)
Re: Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you perchance gesturing towards stock owned companies trying to improve their public looks by creating a look of growing via ghost job postings?
No, that couldn’t be it. Yes, the incentive exists for them to do that, but I’m sure their conscious wouldn’t let them lead people on and waste their time like that.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if it were, I'd stop posting here! unless you (the royal you) are posting it for other motives other than hiring.
Are you perchance gesturing towards stock owned companies trying to improve their public looks by creating a look of growing via ghost job postings?
Also a premium ad spot for free. It would be interesting to see the CTR of these "campaigns".