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Dunno about startups, where it probably is just "we're going to overwork you", but in big companies a posting like this is often a "hire Bob" situation -- Bob w
by acheron 11y ago
Dunno about startups, where it probably is just "we're going to overwork you", but in big companies a posting like this is often a "hire Bob" situation -- Bob worked at the company for many years, picked up a bunch of different skills and was working on different projects. Bob leaves. They only have the one opening to bring someone on, so they want to hire someone exactly like Bob, and just throw up a job posting with all of Bob's skills.
- falcolas 11y agoOr, renew someone's work visa. Requirements are that such a job is made publicly available... but no outside hires are made, they just use it to renew the existing engineer's visa. Seen this twice (well, applied for two positions and found out this was the case why I wasn't considered).
- mynameisvlad 11y agoAs broken as the visa system here is, I don't believe any short term visa (one that would need to be renewed) requires a job posting, for initial or renewal. They're based on other factors, and generally just require an application and for the candidate to be eligible. The only time a job posting had to be created for me was for PERM, for the green card process.