Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but to everyone commenting here saying they’re hiring and asking people to send their CVs —

please have the basic decency to send a simple acknowledgement or revert after receiving them.

This has happened repeatedly over the past few months after sending dozens of emails from these threads, sometimes 10+ at a time. Not getting even a basic response feels extremely disheartening.

I know it’s a tough time for everyone searching for a job, and we all understand if things are slow —

but a small confirmation like “Received, we’ll check” or “Not hiring anymore” takes 5 seconds and makes a world of difference.

Let’s be kinder to each other. It’s been a very hard year

I felt the same way until I saw a friend (engineer not a recruiter) post an opening for a hybrid job on LinkedIn. There were literally 100s of comments from people who didn't even live in the same country. Not to point fingers but they were all from India, had the same rhetoric and the few I clicked on didn't seem qualified.

I am not blaming anyone, I can imagine making >100k in India enables you to take care of your whole family. At the same time do you really expect companies to treat applicants with as much care when they have gone from ~100 applicants per job to several thousand?