Hacker News with Generative AI: Hiring

Relocating for Tech Jobs in 2025 (ycombinator.com)
Helping software engineers to relocate during my last 12 years and working with various hiring companies (from Japan to Canada), I tried to connect the dots and share my predictions for the job relocation market in 2025.

Tech Jobs, Relocation, Predictions, Hiring

13 points by andrewstetsenko 2 days ago | 16 comments

US hiring announcements in 2024 lowest in nine years (yahoo.com)
Hiring announcements by U.S. employers last year were the lowest since 2015, a report showed on Thursday, confirming a sharp moderation in job growth over that period.

Economy, Labor Market, Hiring, Business, United States

4 points by joshstewart 9 days ago | 0 comments

Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff (salesforceben.com)
Salesforce will not be hiring any more software engineers in 2025 amid significant productivity boosts from AI, Marc Benioff has revealed.

Salesforce, Artificial Intelligence, Hiring, Technology, Business

349 points by lordswork 9 days ago | 388 comments

Ask HN: How Do Recruiters Still Have Jobs? (ycombinator.com)
Candidly, it doesn't make sense for recruiters to do "screen" calls to "go over" stuff that's already on my resume and re-confirm that I don't require a visa, despite indicating that I can work legally in the US (US Citizen) in my application on Lever or Workday.

Recruiting, Hiring, Technology, User Experience

12 points by b8 14 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 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.

Hiring, Jobs, Remote, Technology

335 points by whoishiring 16 days ago | 485 comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025) (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

Freelancing, Jobs, Community, Hiring

35 points by whoishiring 16 days ago | 135 comments

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

Job Seeking, Hiring, Community

128 points by whoishiring 16 days ago | 434 comments

Rosetta 2 creator leaves Apple to work on Lean full-time (linkedin.com)
I am thrilled to welcome Cameron Zwarich to the Lean FRO! As the brilliant creator of Rosetta 2 and an exceptional software developer with over 15 years of experience at Apple specializing in low-level systems software, Cameron will focus on enhancing Lean's code generator. I can’t wait to see the incredible impact his expertise will have on the Lean ecosystem! #LeanLang #LeanProver #LeanFRO

Programming Languages, Software Development, Software Engineering, Open Source, Hiring

407 points by ladberg 27 days ago | 134 comments

Why Companies Overspend on Recruiting and Underspend on Retention (blackentropy.com)
I’ve been stewing over this for a while, because the disconnect is absolutely mind-boggling. On the one hand, companies shell out massive amounts of cash to snag new hires—signing bonuses, cushy relocation packages, recruiters working overtime. On the other hand, they’ll practically watch their existing talent walk out the door without lifting a finger to keep them around.

Human Resources, Business, Hiring, Retention

30 points by ByteBoost 32 days ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: What are your experiences with scaling a company? (ycombinator.com)
Let's say your company has 20 employees (markets, products, dev) and one stable product they offer. The plan is to introduce another new product and maybe add new members to the team.

Startups, Scaling, Business Growth, Product Development, Hiring

70 points by surrTurr 40 days ago | 38 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024) (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)

Hiring, Jobs, December 2024

386 points by whoishiring 47 days ago | 479 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024) (ycombinator.com)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

Job Seeking, Hiring, Community

178 points by whoishiring 47 days ago | 483 comments

Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed? (timdellinger.substack.com)
It’s probably Pareto-distributed, not Gaussian, which elucidates a few things about some of the problems that performance management processes have at large corporations, and also speaks to why it’s so hard to hire good people. Oh, and for the economists: the Marginal Productivity Theory of Wages is cleverly combined with the Gini Coefficient to arrive at the key insight.

Performance Management, Statistics, Economics, Hiring

328 points by timdellinger 54 days ago | 334 comments

The Composition Problem: Why Great Hires Can Make Bad Teams (mechanismdesign.org)
Hiring great people is hard. But even harder -- and far less understood -- is the art of great team composition.

Team Building, Hiring, Management

21 points by paulwarren 57 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: What are some of the best take-home coding tasks you've gotten? (ycombinator.com)
As an applicant, I've personally had a mixed experience with take-homes. We're designing the technical interviews right now, and I thought I'd ask for some stories on exciting take-home tasks. We're looking for something that resembles the actual job, so we'll allow any tool (including AI and debuggers).

Software Engineering, Hiring, Technical Interviews

10 points by n2d4 60 days ago | 38 comments

AI overwhelmingly prefers white male candidates in test of resume-screening bias (geekwire.com)
As employers increasingly use digital tools to process job applications, a new study from the University of Washington highlights the potential for significant racial and gender bias when using AI to screen resumes.

Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Hiring, Technology, Research

5 points by ceejayoz 78 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024) (ycombinator.com)
NEW RULE: Please only post a job if you actually intend to fill a position and are committed to responding to everyone who applies.

Hiring, Jobs, Technology, Career, Job Market

379 points by whoishiring 78 days ago | 495 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024) (ycombinator.com)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

Job Hunting, Hiring, Community, Software Engineering

142 points by whoishiring 78 days ago | 422 comments

On Good Software Engineers (candost.blog)
Setting expectations for software engineers is tricky for all managers. Every company has different needs and a different structure, tech stack, and culture. Whenever someone joins a team, one of the manager’s challenges is aligning the organization’s expectations with those of the new joiner. As there’s no universal guidance on this subject, I set out to find a simple definition that would help managers frame the fundamental things they expect from software engineers.

Software Engineering, Management, Expectations, Culture, Hiring

130 points by BerislavLopac 82 days ago | 102 comments

1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates (intelligent.com)
1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant To Hire Recent College Graduates

Hiring, Education, Workforce, Employment, College Graduates

44 points by Raed667 90 days ago | 75 comments

Ask HN: What are things you wish you knew about hiring engineers? (mazeg.io)
Work with a long-term tech partner who will fully take care of your software product development, allowing you to focus on whatever you are best at: strategy, fundraising and sales

Hiring, Software Development, Startups, Technology, Advice

6 points by nikasakana 92 days ago | 11 comments

Ask HN: How do you cope with a deluge of job applications? (ycombinator.com)
I just chatted online with someone currently hiring for a mid-level software engineer who received more than 2,000 applications. That’s ridiculous.

Hiring, Software Engineering, Job Applications

26 points by ohjeez 100 days ago | 46 comments

What Your Job Ad Says About You (talentstuff.com)
I have written and read so many job adverts over the years that I have almost become immune to phrases like “rockstar developer”. That’s a lie. I still throw up in my mouth a little every time I see that.

Hiring, Job Advertisements, Recruitment, Human Resources

70 points by Peroni 108 days ago | 90 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) (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.

Job Hunting, Hiring, Remote Work, Software Engineering

363 points by whoishiring 109 days ago | 487 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024) (ycombinator.com)
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

Job Seeking, Hiring, Community, October 2024

161 points by whoishiring 109 days ago | 485 comments

Google's $2.7B Move to Re-Hire AI Genius Draws Attention (thedailybeast.com)
Google’s $2.7 billion dollar deal with AI leader Noam Shazeer is the latest and most eye watering check cut in a string of lucrative hiring transactions by tech leaders scrambling to woo prized artificial intelligence talent.

Google, Artificial Intelligence, Hiring, Technology, Business

8 points by c420 114 days ago | 0 comments

Hire HTML and CSS People (robinrendle.com)
Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.”

Web Development, Hiring, Front-End Development

60 points by speckx 115 days ago | 50 comments

Ask HN: Marketplaces for Embedded/FPGA Developers (ycombinator.com)
I have what I imagine to be a fairly simple project for a talented FPGA coder.

FPGA, Embedded Systems, Hiring, Freelancing, Marketplaces

43 points by ckemere 122 days ago | 33 comments

Ask HN: Is the Job Market That Bad? (ycombinator.com)
I haven’t been job hunting in a while, but I’ve noticed many of my friends and family struggling just to land interviews. Most are well-qualified and can easily pass initial phone screenings, yet they face challenges in progressing further or even securing a first meeting.

Job Market, Hiring, Technology, Unemployment

72 points by warkanlock 130 days ago | 76 comments

Companies need junior devs (softwaredoug.com)
Getting coffee with a bunch of local tech leaders, I surprised myself with how stridently I argued why companies should hire junior engineers.

Software Development, Hiring, Industry Trends

130 points by softwaredoug 132 days ago | 106 comments