Show HN: Hacker News job trends

There's been many a discussion here about companies holding out for the perfect candidate, curious to see how many jobs go unfilled for how long.

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.

Good 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.

Nice! If you analyze gaps, you could use it to identify companies experiencing consistent churn too, perpetually re-hiring their engineering org.

You'd also identify companies who are growing their teams slowly and adding more of the same role every N months.

Job titles and descriptions could help in distinguishing between new and replaced roles. You'd want to look for fairly identical postings.

I 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.