High interest rates and instability makes it a bad environment to invest, it raises the bar on speculative/growth investment, and tech is mainly that.
Mix that with heavy AI bills, there isn't a lot of budget left for hiring.
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Re: Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
#22I've been tracking this as well [1], and there's indeed a clear difference between pre-2023 and 2023 onward. [1] https://hnjobs.mathieularose.com
Yours looks much nicer!
Re: Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
#23It'd be interesting to go slightly farther back to better gauge the impact of the covid hiring craze.
Its not that dude. is been six years and we are still talkin g about that
I'm talking about why the 2022 data was so insanely different but things returned to apparently baseline by 2023, not why the 2026 data is slightly different.
The post attempts to compare to 2022 rates without asking if that has more to do with 2022 than now. Based on their graph https://raw.githubusercontent.com/santiagobasulto/hn-who-is-... it seems more to do with what was happening just prior to 2022.
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#24Re: Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
#25It's not AI. It's cash flow and corporate lending across nearly every publicly traded company is as high as it can be without lenders raising eyebrows. It's been really bad for nearly a decade. You can see it in screeners. Everyone loaded up to the hilt on debt.
Re: Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
#26I've been tracking this as well [1], and there's indeed a clear difference between pre-2023 and 2023 onward. [1] https://hnjobs.mathieularose.com
lowest amount yet
Re: Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
#27What I noticed lately is that everyone wants a principal or staff SWE. So much that I even think the titles are getting diluted.
They always have been diluted. Titles mean vastly different things at almost every company.
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#28I'm kind of surprised that this is even moving the needle. Really, what do you expect from a "profession" that has been trying to lower the entry level to a point where anyone with access to an AI is a programmer? I remember when folks had to have a degree to enter the "profession" of software developer. Nowadays all you need to be a "programmer" is access to AI. And correspondingly the quality of the output has fall…
Software people are kind of different than doctors or lawyers.. probably also the reason why they act much more innovative than any other profession up to the point to invent the damn thing that replaces them (and likely wipes out humanity at some point if we believe the plot of terminator or matrix)
Re: Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
#29What I noticed lately is that everyone wants a principal or staff SWE. So much that I even think the titles are getting diluted.
Positions which are difficult to hire for are going to be up for much longer AND you will use additional channels for wider reach, there's nothing surprising about that.
Re: Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1
#30Nothing to do with the bar for wanting a job being WAY lower than the bar for being able to even potentially hire someone they found on an internet forum.