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Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Re: Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Post by the_af »

ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #127
the_af wrote: post #60

As an aside, I'm not currently looking for a job (knock on wood) but people close to me are and... the interview process seems harder than ever. Now you get recorded, told you cannot alt-tab, take home assignments are very strict for companies that aren't even close to a FAANG (I mean, if you're applying to Google it comes with the territory, but why is your random startup so strict?), you are automatically graded on…

I’m approaching 30 years in software development, and I don’t remember having a “technical” interview until this week…. in which I had two. Both were with large, well-known companies. But the nature and outcome of the two were quite different. In one, the interviewer just dumped some code on the screen that had been clumsily obfuscated, and its intent and strategy rendered indecipherable. In the second, I was asked t…

Agreed that the second seems more reasonable!

It matters a lot if the interviewer is not quizzing you on trivia or waiting for you to trip and fall.

> I feel more confident in judging their validity and my role in their outcomes… and calling out ones that are disrespectful.

I wish we could all do that! One overlooked aspect of this humiliating process is that it saps your confidence. I've seen it happen. After a bunch of failed interviews, the person starts feeling it's their fault and that they cannot possibly be good, and this informs their attitude for the next challenge, which they fail, and so on.

Re: Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Post by xtracto »

bilsbie wrote: post #10

That seems like a good signal to track. Btw does anyone ever get hired from the who wants to be hired thread?

I was contacted by several people (including 2 YCombinator startups) in the past. In the end we didn't close with any of them, but they were good "leads". And for one of them I made a friend/acquintance in the other side of the world (I'm in Mexico, he is in Australia) which I think is cool :).

Re: Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Post by ritzaco »

madcaptenor wrote: post #104
ritzaco wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Added (blindly) the above data to a spreadsheet with a graph here[0]. If anyone wants to add the 2019 data in a comment, I'll update the sheet. [0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bjPl3a0ciH6U9-OaLXGQ...

There's already a comment from ed_balls with the 2019 data.

added, but I see the bigquery script that's now the top comment makes it redundant.

Re: Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Post by mtnGoat »

I’ve always found the who’s hiring threads to be interesting. I don’t think all of those companies are actively hiring, but rather like to look like they are for some reason I don’t understand. My reasoning is two fold: I applied to some a couple years ago while job hunting and got worse response rate than most other sources. And some seem to be hiring for the same position for many months in a row. Though the second reason could be due to having extremely high set of requirements, but is usually a sign of a company to avoid in my experience.

Re: Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Post by giraffe_lady »

mtnGoat wrote: post #134

I’ve always found the who’s hiring threads to be interesting. I don’t think all of those companies are actively hiring, but rather like to look like they are for some reason I don’t understand. My reasoning is two fold: I applied to some a couple years ago while job hunting and got worse response rate than most other sources. And some seem to be hiring for the same position for many months in a row. Though the second…

To placate overworked employees begging for relief.

Re: Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Post by hollaur »

mtnGoat wrote: post #134

I’ve always found the who’s hiring threads to be interesting. I don’t think all of those companies are actively hiring, but rather like to look like they are for some reason I don’t understand. My reasoning is two fold: I applied to some a couple years ago while job hunting and got worse response rate than most other sources. And some seem to be hiring for the same position for many months in a row. Though the second…

Many companies post jobs just for backlinks or to get more traffic to their site.

Re: Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Post by wyclif »

71a54xd wrote: post #109
projectazorian wrote: post #106

There’s an odd dynamic in the market right now. In addition to layoffs, people who are subject to RTO are trying to find jobs at remote employers, so there’s an abnormally high number of already-employed folks on the job hunt right now. Not to mention all the juniors having trouble finding work at the moment. Meanwhile remote employers are seeing less employee turnover, so don’t need to do much hiring, especially sin…

It also seems like the market has strongly skewed to the senior side of things (8+ yrs exp).

Yep, I'm currently on the market and I'm seeing a lot of requests for impossibly high years of experience if you're a junior.

Re: Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Post by matttb »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #50
mortenjorck wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It does amuse me that we're still at more people hiring than looking for jobs I would definitely not read that from the data. I don’t know what percentage of current seekers post in the wants-to-be-hired thread, but as a potentially-outlying anecdote, I didn’t until I had already been looking for three months. I would hypothesize that there’s a psychological barrier to posting in WWTBH, even if you’ve been laid off…

Did you get anything from your "who wants to be hired" post? It's not been clear to me that it's a useful thing to do.

I just got a lot of spam email until I asked the mods to delete my post and the spam vanished

Re: Tell HN: The ratio of wants-to-be-hired to is-hiring is at a record high 0.94

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Post by matttb »

newbie578 wrote: post #37
bilsbie wrote: post #10

That seems like a good signal to track. Btw does anyone ever get hired from the who wants to be hired thread?

The few times I posted, my email got scraped and I received some offers which were all not job offers..

This was my experience as well. Not a single real inquiry, just spam. I asked the mods to delete my posts on those threads and the spam email vanished
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