Same experience. BBC links an article about exactly that phenomenon: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240315-ghost-jobs-digital-job-boards https://www.bb

Same experience. BBC links an article about exactly that phenomenon: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240315-ghost-jobs-digital-job-boards https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240315-ghost-jobs-dig... I think that often it actually is about the 0.1%, it's the simplest explanation (but the ghost jobs article gives a few other explanations that are also good). Software development does not have a minimum headcount, everything you can build with four you might also be able to build with three, it's not like you need a well defined number of chairs to be occupied. And it's actually worse than a naive look at the numbers suggests. Some of those forever openings aren't just listed by the would-be hiring company, but also by a happy flock of companies from that cottage industry of recruiting middle men, some disguised a little through different wording, others not disguised at all. Five companies looking for skill xy, and they are all the for same position that is only ever filled if the 0.1% happens to pass by.