I'm wondering if there has been an increasingly inflationary use of the term "Senior" in job postings over the past few years. This data somewhat confirms my suspicion.
Anyone else has this impression?
10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
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#12Semi-related - I continue to be amused by the number of people that blindly-copy things without understanding what's what. I've seen / heard people refer to LLMs for Vision, which are certainly a thing, but not always what people mean or intend.
And my favorite still is the job posting and experts that refer to "R, Python, SLQ, etc" elsewhere. [1]
This seems to be a copy-paste off of GlassDoor which has -still- not been corrected. [2]
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22R%2C+Python%2C+SLQ%2C+etc...
[2] https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/Job-Descriptions/Data-Sc...
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#13Crypto and blockchain employment is rapidly expanding but no one posts on HN regarding crypto companies. The industry knows “The Orange Site” is not where you want to find candidates, or good conversation for that matter.
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#14Small 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 Feb…
When does a pandemic begin is sort of an interesting question.
I agree when the virus is first seen is probably a bad date to use for historical context purposes, but I see the logic for it.
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#15I'm wondering if there has been an increasingly inflationary use of the term "Senior" in job postings over the past few years. This data somewhat confirms my suspicion. Anyone else has this impression?
Or an influx of low-quality entry level candidates, causing companies to bias towards senior hires.
Or the maturing of the industry in general, causing senior workers to be more common.
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#16Crypto and blockchain employment is rapidly expanding but no one posts on HN regarding crypto companies. The industry knows “The Orange Site” is not where you want to find candidates, or good conversation for that matter.
and which site would have the good candidates and conversations, then?
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#17I'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?
https://hnhiring.com/trends
Not a true top-line overall number, but the trend is obvious notwithstanding.
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#18> 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 enginee…
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#19I think the increase in people looking for "senior"s has more to do with title inflation than anything else. Now anyone with more than 1 year experience is considered "senior."
The decrease in internship positions is possibly concerning, however, it might just have to do with the types of jobs that get posted to HN. I'd imagine advertising internships directly with colleges might be more effective and where companies might be concentrating their efforts. You'd have to analyze much more than just HN to make any conclusions about the broader job market.
If you have good interns you don't even have to advertise jr positions, you just hire your interns when they graduate. The place where I got my first job out of college I was like the only person who started as a Jr and wasn't an intern first. So lack of advertised positions doesn't mean that nobody is hiring jrs, but it absolutely could mean that.
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#20Some while ago, someone posted a tool to analyze the frequency of any term on HN over time:
https://hn.curiosity.ai/#/trends
It seems to still work. And the numbers seem to be roughly in line with this article.