Ask HN: Any way we can find the job opening and closing trend of any company?
It would be interesting to see the data about when a company posts a job post and when it gets closed.
We can then use that data to create “trends” graph for that company.
- Job websites are, for some companies first and foremost, a signal to the investment community. Hey look, series A, and now we have these 12 job listings open. Meantime they’re trying to figure much more important things out than who to hire at that level (like who they can get who knows how to hire). Any emails sent in go straight to nowhere.
- Job listings are also a political tool. Say you have an organization with 1,000 employees and 90% of them are low-skilled H1B’s. While you might ordinarily need about 50-100 job listings to keep pace with employee turnover, putting 1000 job listings out there helps give cover to politicians to expand, rather than curtail, the H1B program. Recruiting someone is expensive. Pretending to recruit someone is almost free, and unreasonably effective. Vaporware for fun and profit.
- Recruiting someone is expensive. Pretending to recruit someone is almost free, and unreasonably effective. Vaporware for fun and profit.