10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
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10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
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#2Seems about right
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#3I'd really like to be able to see the data because I have some specific questions of my own...
If posting the database isn't possible could someone give some more hints in terms of the API's accessed to get this?
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#4I'd like a graph of just number of job postings over time, but I didn't find one. From the location graph, looks like SF jobs fell off a cliff, whereas the rest remained about constant? This would point to an overall reduction in open positions, no?
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#5I'd like a graph of just number of job postings over time, but I didn't find one. From the location graph, looks like SF jobs fell off a cliff, whereas the rest remained about constant? This would point to an overall reduction in open positions, no?
They all became remote.
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#6I'd really like to be able to see the data because I have some specific questions of my own... If posting the database isn't possible could someone give some more hints in terms of the API's accessed to get this?
I could put this up on a GitHub repo. If I get time today, I'll post it and leave the link here.
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#7The job location thing is a bit weird, with just Europe, NY and SF. That is basically meaningless except to show the post-covid decline of SF as an onsite location.
Most of the job ads I see are US only or US/Canada.
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#8Looks like remote work was getting popular anyhow, just that COVID accelerated it.
Does anybody know what the bump in 2017 is?
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#9> The rise of "Senior" and the decline of "Intern"
I don't know anyone who has anything positive to say about hiring juniors and between it getting far harder to wade through the avalanche of juniors with Coursera certs and AI making the easier work no longer require a human, I don't see a great future for them.
Even in my first job 4 years ago, the senior manager there said in a meeting "we don't hire junior engineers as they are too much of a burden", which was news to new grad me who I guess slipped through an automated filter. Granted, they didn't have anyone else with less than 5 years of experience working there.
It is going to be weird in a few years when the supply of more experienced devs has been throttled.
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#10Small correction: the post says "2019 pandemic," but the pandemic was actually in early 2020. "COVID-19" is so named because it is traced back to a first case in China in December 2019. WHO declared it a global emergency on January 30, 2020 which is about when Western press started taking it more seriously. WHO announced "COVID-19" as the name of the new disease, following some international naming guidelines, on February 11, 2020. The graph shows a sharp dropoff in onsite jobs and sharp rise in remote jobs precisely in the February-March 2020 time period, which makes sense.