Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?

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Post by koliber » Wed, Jun 04, 2025, 11:39 AM UTC

hermannj314 wrote: post #40

I am on the site because it is full of very thoughtful and intelligent people in the tech industry. I don't stand a chance in an interview pool made up of a sample of HN readers. Outside of HN, I am a successful IT director, with a graduate degree and a good career. Here, I am an auto-reject bottom-rung parasitic loser that never went to Stanford.

You're being harsh on yourself.

People are not rated on a single scale. Not everyone on HN is better than you on every type of scale an employer will use.

There are many people who are better than you at some things, but an employer is looking at the complete package, and not any one skill in particular.

Re: Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?

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Post by gwbas1c » Wed, Jun 04, 2025, 12:54 PM UTC

It probably varies from company to company.

Sometimes the company might set the bar impossibly high. Other companies might be rejected by the candidates.

Given the current economic situation, I think a tech job that stays open for longer then 2-3 months is a warning sign about the company. (Except for jobs that require ultra-rare skills, but most jobs I see don't require them.)

Re: Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?

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Post by stevekemp » Wed, Jun 04, 2025, 3:40 PM UTC

Some times they get so many (often low-quality) applicants they just bin hundreds at a time for arbitrary reasons.

Other times the jobs were never real, it's a "growth hack" like other forms of spamming, posted to advertise the company and sell the illusion the company is growing, not slowly sinking.