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I keep making the same posting but I've hired ~4 people and I'm still growing. One posting equals one job is a bad assumption.
by cottonseed 8y ago
I keep making the same posting but I've hired ~4 people and I'm still growing. One posting equals one job is a bad assumption.
- ryandrake 8y agoGood to know. I have a half-finished project I was going to snarkily call “Who’s Not Hiring” that parses through HN Who’s Hiring archives and lists the companies who post the same ad month after month despite the so-called robust hiring market.
- anothergoogler 8y agoNice! If you analyze gaps, you could use it to identify companies experiencing consistent churn too, perpetually re-hiring their engineering org.
- hobls 8y agoYou'd also identify companies who are growing their teams slowly and adding more of the same role every N months.
- anothergoogler 8y agoJob titles and descriptions could help in distinguishing between new and replaced roles. You'd want to look for fairly identical postings.
- hobls 8y agoI think you might be overestimating the consistency and reliability of how hiring is done. (For reference, I've worked as a hiring manager of software engineers for a few years.) I've seen departments just use the same description over and over for years, and share it between teams -- even when it's not even really correct at some point. Practices vary wildly between company, and even between hiring managers.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoYou could scrape LinkedIn for people who had been at those orgs for a short bit of time. Frequent posts of the same job description + LinkedIn churn evidence = red flag.