Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months • Hacker News Board

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by andyjsong » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

andyjsong wrote: post #15

My theory, YC software team has been building features like https://www.workatastartup.com/ and so YC companies are posting less on HN.

I've been seeing the YC software team disaggregate HN features to make it easier for founders to run their startups:

Ask HN is now sort of part of YC Startup School where founders can ask people in the community about their startup issues.

Show HN is now Launch YC: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by jt2190 » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #19

Can we get a "Who is firing?" post going?

I genuinely don’t understand what the purpose of such a thread would be.

* Weird sense of relief? (“At least I wasn’t laid off!”)

* Gloating? (“Ha! I knew that wildly successful company wasn’t so great!”)

* Determine if a particular company is shrinking headcount? (Seems unreliable at best.)

Something else?

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by kesterallen » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

killingtime74 wrote: post #25

Has anyone actually gotten much success in either direction (hirer/candidate) from these posts?

I get a fair number of good resumes from these threads.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by Minor49er » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

killingtime74 wrote: post #25

Has anyone actually gotten much success in either direction (hirer/candidate) from these posts?

I got my current job through one of these threads

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by paxys » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

These are posted every month. If you want to make a point then graph all of them rather than pick out three random data points.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by jollyllama » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

anonu wrote: post #5

Is there seasonality? Like hiring slows down into the end of the year, is my guess. In which case, can you get 10-15 years of HN posts? Then you would need to adjust by user base as well.. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ICNSA Conclusion: not enough data points.

It definitely continues through October, though; it usually drops off in December.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by anonygler » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

I feel like people are trying to wish the economy into a recession / depression, but I really don't see it happening. I do see some belt tightening wrt SaaS expenditures. There's still a massive demand for labor.

While the housing market has fallen, the actual cost of buying a house is still rising. Rate increases have well outpaced the list price reductions.

So I think all this talk of a recession is just a bunch of reporters trying to jeer people into that state of mind for clicks.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by battery_glasses » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:44 PM UTC

harryvederci wrote: post #23

I don't know the intention of the author, but I see like a lot of "Look, it's happening! The economy is going down!" posts pop up these days. Which may be true, but it can also be a self-fulfilling profecy if everyone is doing that on all platforms. Which would be a shame. I'm not saying HN and other platforms should censor (/ take action) either. It's just a thought I have on this subject, and I don't know if there…

This could be considered a good thing. The whole point of increasing interest rates is to lower business investment and consumer purchasing power, which is what we need to do to combat inflation (or magically fix all supply chain issues.)

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by MattGaiser » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:44 PM UTC

maerF0x0 wrote: post #30

also consider the whole chain -- From the layoffs I've observed Recruiters were some of the top laid off roles. Less recruiters means prioritization of efforts. HN Who's hiring is probably a low priority platform. (Recruiter's boss doesn't know what it is, hard to instrument for tracking metrics) If you really want to know how many jobs are out there it's better to index and crawl all the companies jobs page directly…

I would be curious to know if Who's Hiring is recruiters or other devs/founders. I always assumed other devs or founders.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by ketzu » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:44 PM UTC

killingtime74 wrote: post #25

Has anyone actually gotten much success in either direction (hirer/candidate) from these posts?

I posted in "who wants to be hired" a few times, and a few people reached out. About 50% seem to be somewhat targeted to the message. At least one lead to an offer (which I declined for other reasons, it was a fair and interesting offer though).

"Who is hiring" never worked out for me, as the geographic limitations are too strict or confusingly worded. Looking through 400 posts to figure out which are actually open to hire someone from europe is not as promising as looking through dedicated job portals.