Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

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Post by m3h » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 1:11 AM UTC

Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?
blog.pragmaticengineer.com

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Post by gnabgib » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 1:12 AM UTC

Dupe: (6 points, 2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121113

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Post by righthand » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 1:34 AM UTC

I’ve been receiving emails from reps at companies lately. Some are from companies that didn’t hire me after getting laid off in 2022 for petty/unclear reasons. I had written some of them off as fake job postings. Now between that experience, this supposed decline, and ghost job postings I’m not sure if it’s a serious email or not.

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Post by m3h » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 1:39 AM UTC

righthand wrote: post #3

I’ve been receiving emails from reps at companies lately. Some are from companies that didn’t hire me after getting laid off in 2022 for petty/unclear reasons. I had written some of them off as fake job postings. Now between that experience, this supposed decline, and ghost job postings I’m not sure if it’s a serious email or not.

Are they inviting you to apply?

And what happens if you do?

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Post by neilv » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 2:08 AM UTC

Why anchor it to the start of Covid? I'd really like to see a 10-year period.

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Post by xk3 » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 2:13 AM UTC

> Devs spot and fix hallucinations immediately, dismissing incorrect autocomplete suggestions

Some hallucinations stay in codebases longer than others! If there were zero hallucinations there would really be no novel output. Some hallucinations are useful and some are not.

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Post by andro_dev » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 2:21 AM UTC

The number of job postings means nothing. 75% of the job postings are either scam or ghost postings.

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Post by mverv » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 2:23 AM UTC

neilv wrote: post #5

Why anchor it to the start of Covid? I'd really like to see a 10-year period.

There's a 25 year graph at the end of the article.

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Post by hooverd » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 2:25 AM UTC

> Indeed

I thought it was the MySpace of job boards.

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Post by streptomycin » Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 2:38 AM UTC

No mention of Section 174...

Edit: I am an idiot, there is a mention. Or possibly the article was edited and I'm not an idiot, it does say there was an edit recently.