Hacker News with Generative AI: Hiring

Cover Letters? Yes (world.hey.com)
Whenever I write about our focus on cover letters during the hiring process, I'll inevitably receive the "cover letters are still a thing?" or "people still read cover letters?" response from a cadre of characters.

Hiring, Job Applications, Cover Letters

5 points by tosh 1 day ago | 1 comments

The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection (davidrozado.substack.com)
Previous studies have explored gender and ethnic biases in hiring by submitting résumés/CVs to real job postings or mock selection panels, systematically varying the gender or ethnicity signaled by applicants. This approach enables researchers to isolate the effects of demographic characteristics on hiring or preselection decisions.

Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Hiring, Human Resources

191 points by hunglee2 3 days ago | 181 comments

Big Beautiful Bill R&D Tax: Will tech go on a hiring spree again? (ycombinator.com)
Since 2022, in the US, R&D had to be amortized in 5-15 years. That was one of the reasons (big)tech stopped hiring.

Taxation, Technology, Hiring

20 points by jbverschoor 4 days ago | 21 comments

AI Won't Kill Junior Devs – But Your Hiring Strategy Might (addyo.substack.com)
Junior developers remain essential in an industry increasingly using AI for coding, but their role is evolving rather than disappearing.

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Hiring

59 points by kiyanwang 5 days ago | 74 comments

Klarna flip from AI-first to hiring people again, Survey Reveal AI projects fail (fortune.com)
After leaning hard on AI for customer service, fintech Klarna says it's hiring more humans.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Fintech, Hiring

29 points by amarcheschi 12 days ago | 10 comments

Klarna plans to hire humans again (fortune.com)
After leaning hard on AI for customer service, fintech Klarna says it's hiring more humans.

Customer Service, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, Hiring

9 points by mooreds 13 days ago | 1 comments

Klarna flips from AI to hiring people, survey reveals most AI fail to deliver (fortune.com)
After leaning hard on AI for customer service, fintech Klarna says it's hiring more humans.

Artificial Intelligence, Customer Service, Fintech, Hiring, Survey

16 points by riffraff 14 days ago | 2 comments

The AI arms race in hiring is a mess for everyone (ft.com)
The AI arms race in hiring is a huge mess for everyone

Artificial Intelligence, Hiring, Technology, Business

7 points by ummonk 18 days ago | 1 comments

A DOGE recruiter staffing project to deploy AI agents across the US government (arstechnica.com)
A young entrepreneur who was among the earliest known recruiters for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has a new, related gig—and he’s hiring.

Artificial Intelligence, Government, Hiring, Elon Musk

13 points by rntn 19 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Best underrated way to get a job in tech during a hiring slowdown? (ycombinator.com)
My sister-in-law is graduating at probably the worst time. I've done referrals and helped her build a portfolio, but it's pretty bleak right now.

Hiring, Job Searching, Technology, Career Advice

16 points by tolarewaju3 20 days ago | 34 comments

Google begged Steve Jobs for permission to hire engineers (2014) (archive.org)
Google begged Steve Jobs for permission to hire engineers for its new Paris office. Guess what happened next…

Google, Steve Jobs, Apple, Hiring, History

6 points by helloworld 21 days ago | 0 comments

Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going? (oxide.computer)
Four years ago, we were struggling to hire.

Compensation, Hiring, Business Models, Technology

264 points by steveklabnik 22 days ago | 233 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025) (ycombinator.com)
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.

Jobs, Hiring, Remote, May 2025

263 points by whoishiring 22 days ago | 447 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025) (ycombinator.com)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

Jobs, Hiring, Community, Technology, Employment

130 points by whoishiring 22 days ago | 415 comments

All the job candidates are fake (sofuckingagile.com)
Hiring engineers has always been hard. For a while, as a remote first company, it was actually amazing. The world was available to you. Talented individuals were everywhere. Today everyone is fake, like live-face-swapping fake. Over half the candidates are fake in some way. I’ve pretty much given up and have fallen back to referrals only.

Hiring, Remote Work, Software Engineering, Job Market

8 points by asyncscrum 26 days ago | 2 comments

Tech Companies Aren't Hiring Gen Z. Entry-Level Jobs Are Drying Up (businessinsider.com)
Less training for newbies. Few entry-level jobs. And AI is about to make things even worse.

Hiring, Technology, Labor Market, Generation Z, Artificial Intelligence

10 points by littlexsparkee 29 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Why so many companies reducing middle management recently? (ycombinator.com)

Management, Business, Hiring, Economy, Trends

9 points by arduinomancer 29 days ago | 13 comments

You Can't Outrun AI in Tech Interviews, So We Designed Around It (medium.com)
You Can’t Outrun AI in Tech Interviews, So We Designed Around It

Artificial Intelligence, Tech Interviews, Hiring

5 points by gregdoesit 36 days ago | 8 comments

Tech CEO: 4-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity (theregister.com)
Interview Civo shifted its workforce to a four-day working week and while it hasn't changed productivity much at the cloud biz, it has helped attract "new talent" and retain existing staff, CEO Mark Boost says.

Work-Life Balance, Productivity, Business, Technology, Hiring

26 points by rntn 43 days ago | 12 comments

Tech hiring stalls as AI hype, layoffs, tariffs, economic uncertainty collide (theregister.com)
The hint of optimism to be found in February's tech jobs numbers? Yeah, it's pretty much gone, according to multiple analyses of the latest data out from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for March.

Tech, Hiring, Artificial Intelligence, Economy

6 points by rntn 44 days ago | 1 comments

We won't hire a junior with five years of experience (world.hey.com)
We just opened a search for a new junior programmer at 37signals. It's been years since we last hired a junior, but the real reason the listing is turning heads is because we're open about the yearly salary: $145,849*. That's high enough that programmers with lots of experience are asking whether they could apply, even if they aren't technically "junior".

Programming, Salaries, Hiring, Startups

7 points by ghuntley 45 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to find devs based on code, not LinkedIn titles (gitmatcher.com)
Tired of sifting through endless LinkedIn profiles and resumes? GitMatcher taps into GitHub—the largest developer network—to instantly identify top talent that fits your exact needs.

Hiring, Software Development, GitHub, Talent Acquisition

86 points by NabilChiheb 45 days ago | 71 comments

We won't hire a junior with five years of experience (world.hey.com)
We just opened a search for a new junior programmer at 37signals. It's been years since we last hired a junior, but the real reason the listing is turning heads is because we're open about the yearly salary: $145,849*. That's high enough that programmers with lots of experience are asking whether they could apply, even if they aren't technically "junior". The answer is no.

Hiring, Software Development, Salaries, Programming

7 points by eduction 45 days ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025) (ycombinator.com)
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.

Jobs, Hiring, Technology, Remote

279 points by whoishiring 52 days ago | 492 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025) (ycombinator.com)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

Job Seeking, Hiring, Hacker News

80 points by whoishiring 52 days ago | 329 comments

(yet another) two kinds of data scientists (artofdatascience.substack.com)
We’re hiring data scientists. I mean, we hired one last week, but we need more data scientists here at Babbage.

Data Science, Hiring, Jobs

3 points by amrrs 61 days ago | 0 comments

The struggle that made us in Waterloo (bearblog.dev)
I can feel uncertainty looming over the software industry as the hiring frenzy of the COVID era has given way to layoffs and hiring freezes.

Software Industry, Layoffs, Hiring, Uncertainty, Waterloo

20 points by d-k-blackthorn 63 days ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: What's Your Opinion on MCP? (ycombinator.com)
Seems like the #1 up trending topic for slightly spammy blog posts (like the “hiring is broken” spam that Triplebyte funded for years) lately as well as people asking open-ended questions about.

Hiring, Opinion, Spam, Software

7 points by amrrs 63 days ago | 3 comments

How the language of job postings can attract rule-bending narcissists (arstechnica.com)
Looking to hire someone? Check your wording very carefully.

Hiring, Psychology, Language, Narcissism, Job Search

7 points by NotInOurNames 63 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever been hired because of open-source contributions? (ycombinator.com)
One of the most publicized advantages of contributing to open-source projects are the (supposed) better odds at landing jobs.

Open Source, Hiring, Software Development, Career

31 points by mothhabit 65 days ago | 22 comments