Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months • Hacker News Board

I don't know the intention of the author, but I see like a lot of "Look, it's happening! The economy is going down!" posts pop up these days. Which may be true, but it can also be a self-fulfilling profecy if everyone is doing that on all platforms. Which would be a shame.

I'm not saying HN and other platforms should censor (/ take action) either. It's just a thought I have on this subject, and I don't know if there is a solution.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by water-your-self » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:34 PM UTC

jibe wrote: post #18

andyjsong wrote: post #15

My theory, YC software team has been building features like https://www.workatastartup.com/ and so YC companies are posting less on HN.

Or companies are cutting spending in anticipation of a recession.

Most of the titans are in a hiring freeze or have choked non essential hiring.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by killingtime74 » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

Has anyone actually gotten much success in either direction (hirer/candidate) from these posts?

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by CabSauce » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

mountainriver wrote: post #20

jibe wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or companies are cutting spending in anticipation of a recession.

This is the obvious answer

Or HN traffic is down. Or people don't hire into the holiday season, or tech is down. There are countless things that could drive that number. We can't tell from a few monthly counts.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by pc86 » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

andyjsong wrote: post #15

My theory, YC software team has been building features like https://www.workatastartup.com/ and so YC companies are posting less on HN.

Most of the Who's Hiring posts are non-YC companies

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by jabedude » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

killingtime74 wrote: post #25

Has anyone actually gotten much success in either direction (hirer/candidate) from these posts?

I was hired at my current company because I responded to a who’s hiring post almost 2 years ago

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by lame-robot-hoax » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

killingtime74 wrote: post #25

Has anyone actually gotten much success in either direction (hirer/candidate) from these posts?

I think I posted in one once or twice and had ~3 people reach out to me about roles. One ended up being promising, but I had to pull out for a family emergency that kept me from being able to participate.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by maerF0x0 » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

also consider the whole chain --

From the layoffs I've observed Recruiters were some of the top laid off roles.

Less recruiters means prioritization of efforts.

HN Who's hiring is probably a low priority platform. (Recruiter's boss doesn't know what it is, hard to instrument for tracking metrics)

If you really want to know how many jobs are out there it's better to index and crawl all the companies jobs page directly. Albeit much much harder to do than a single HN thread per month.