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Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

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> https://tamerc.com/posts/ask-hn-who-is-hiring/#what-javascri...

"Node.js" and "NodeJS" are drawn as separate spheres, is that intentional? Similarly for "Vue.js" and "VueJS". (Maybe the same for "Angular" vs "AngularJS" too, although the former might be referring to Angular TypeScript).

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard that many of the jobs posted on general jobs boards like that are never intended to result in a hire. They are posted when the company already knows who they are going to hire, but are legally obligated to post the position, or when the company wants to manufacture evidence that "no qualified candidates" could be found locally.

I’ve never heard of this outside of government contracts that require n+X. Is this a visa related workaround or what? Or is it just chatter from the grapevine?

I can tell you that when I moved from a contract position to full time at Dell Services (now NTT Data Services), they had to review and possibly? interview 2 additional candidates despite hiring from within.

We did have many work visa employees though.

We worked with Healthcare clients. Big ones.

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard that many of the jobs posted on general jobs boards like that are never intended to result in a hire. They are posted when the company already knows who they are going to hire, but are legally obligated to post the position, or when the company wants to manufacture evidence that "no qualified candidates" could be found locally.

I’ve never heard of this outside of government contracts that require n+X. Is this a visa related workaround or what? Or is it just chatter from the grapevine?

Could be visa-related, it's very easy to craft a posting that only your already-identified preferred candidate will qualify for. I firsthand know of companies that did this for H-1B employees.

Or any public sector job where positions have to be posted but you already have your internal hire, son-in-law, or cousin lined up.

But, it's mostly just rumor I've heard.

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

#25

This should have "Show HN" tag Also you don't have to use selenium or HN api - there are DBs with updated HN data

Could you maybe link me one of those? I've googled a bit but didn't find ready-to-use DBs with that data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

#26

This should have "Show HN" tag Also you don't have to use selenium or HN api - there are DBs with updated HN data

Show HN is for things someone has made that other people can try and this is a write up which is perfectly fine as it is - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

#27

> Using Selenium, I used a script to google iteratively for strings query = f"ask hn who is hiring {month} {year}" to get the IDs of the items that represent the monthly threads. FYI, you could've just used the hackernews API, and get all posts by the user `whoishiring`, which submits all these who is hiring posts. And then filter out only the posts where the title starts with "Ask HN: Who is hiring?", as this bot al…

This makes just so much sense and would spare me 65 lines of code. Thank you!

Also NER would have done a better job imo

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard that many of the jobs posted on general jobs boards like that are never intended to result in a hire. They are posted when the company already knows who they are going to hire, but are legally obligated to post the position, or when the company wants to manufacture evidence that "no qualified candidates" could be found locally.

I’ve never heard of this outside of government contracts that require n+X. Is this a visa related workaround or what? Or is it just chatter from the grapevine?

H1B visa workaround. Companies have to show that there are no qualified US candidates before they are able to use the H1B visa process. But there have been many abusers of the system. https://www.utahbusiness.com/systemic-abuse-of-the-h-1b-lott...

Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o

#29

> https://tamerc.com/posts/ask-hn-who-is-hiring/#what-javascri... "Node.js" and "NodeJS" are drawn as separate spheres, is that intentional? Similarly for "Vue.js" and "VueJS". (Maybe the same for "Angular" vs "AngularJS" too, although the former might be referring to Angular TypeScript).

Angular and AngularJS are distinct from each other; the other pairs are not.
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