It's interesting what the "Decreasing Technologies" graph implies by omission. Assuming this means that technologies not included in that graph have been consistent through the same time period. Without a corresponding data view for "Increasing Technologies" there's not really any data on current trends.
10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
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#22I'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?
Some of it seems to be that any job that is junior/intermediate gets swamped with anyone who has done a bootcamp or Coursera certificate.
Friend posted an intermediate job. Went though 20 resumes and then decided to scrap the whole process as none of them were any good.
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#23Would love if this also validated my perceived decline of MongoDB.
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#24Crypto 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?
I’m a ways out of that world now, but my colleagues still in it say that twitter and discord (and getting invited to the “right” private servers) are where jobs are found for blockchain.
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#25Crypto 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.
LinkedIn and random recruiter spam about crypto have also dried up in my anecdotal experience, so where are they hiring?
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#26This is great, thank you for putting it together
> More and more jobs are looking for senior and management level positions. It is increasing tough to be an entry level job applicant in tech
On top of this, at least in my recent experience, it seems like companies not only want more senior applicants, they are also a lot more picky about their experience and want them to know their whole tech stack, have a ton of practice doing interviews, and be great at leetcode
The current job searching experience, at least in tech, feels broken in many different ways
Unfortunately I can't change companies' application processes, but I've been able to make one part of the job searching process a lot easier
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#27I'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?
Hiring is fundamentally broken at the vast majority of companies. Maybe the "senior" label is just to try and deter low quality candidates or maybe it's because they don't want to invest in any employee anymore for right or wrong reasons - employees leaving after a few years or maybe the company/management are focused on excel spreadsheets only.
Anyway, try applying to a job today or even pre-pandemic. Unless you went to a top school, are in the right geographic region (West Coast US, or NY area), or you have strong network connections, you're going to be going through a ridiculous number of job applications, then a non-nonsensical number of interview rounds, and maybe you'll get an offer.
Alternatively you spend 3-6 or more months studying leetcode and planet-scale system design, because random startups, banks, insurance companies also wants people who are only the of the best and pay "competitive salary".
The number of places that rejected me for trivial reasons is insane. I can only imagine what people entering the industry right now have to face, it can't be any better than it was.
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#29Looks 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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#30The 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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