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Tech hiring is down 40% and nobody’s talking about it

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Re: Tech hiring is down 40% and nobody’s talking about it

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Key paragraph:

> Because previous years have been reliably consistent and because our competitors' numbers are off by similar measures, we feel confident assuming fewer jobs are available across the industry. Whether it's 40% fewer or another amount is anyone's guess.

Re: Tech hiring is down 40% and nobody’s talking about it

#3
This response on Medium offers a plausible hypothesis:

> I suspect that the decline of your job board postings are an indicator that certain kinds of job board postings are becoming less popular, rather than an indicator that the developer job market is contracting in 2016.

Sauce: https://medium.com/@_ericelliott/youre-looking-at-a-tiny-sli...