Hacker News with Generative AI: Recruitment

Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in a bizarre hacking campaign (techcrunch.com)
Someone is making precisely that tantalizing, bizarre, and clearly sketchy job offer. The person is using what looks like a series of fake accounts with avatars displaying photos of attractive women and sliding into the direct messages of several cybersecurity professionals and researchers on X in the last couple of weeks.

Cybersecurity, Social Engineering, Recruitment, Twitter

6 points by jbegley 1 day ago | 0 comments

Recruiter accidently emailed me her secret internal selection guidelines (reddit.com)
I didn't understand what it was at first, but when it dawned on me, the sheer pretentiousness and elitism kinda pissed me off ngl.

Recruitment, Human Resources, Reddit, Job Hunting, Employment

9 points by tosh 10 days ago | 0 comments

UK IT job searching broken (ycombinator.com)
Its been a year of searching, a handful of interviews at best, recent interviews have had disinterested interviewers reading a script and not listening to answers.

UK, Job Searching, Technology, Recruitment

21 points by c7THEC2DDFVV2V 13 days ago | 28 comments

A platform where you can start working with the best Ukrainian tech companies (codeua.com)

Ukraine, Technology, Job Market, Recruitment

46 points by Kizert 20 days ago | 1 comments

AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem (pragmaticengineer.com)
Imagine you’re the cofounder of a startup hiring its first few software engineers, and there’s a candidate who smashes the technical interview, and is the only one to complete the full coding interview – doing so with time to spare. Their communication style is a bit unconventional, but this could be explained by language differences, and isn’t a red flag.

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Recruitment, Hiring

59 points by iamflimflam1 22 days ago | 56 comments

AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment (pragmaticengineer.com)
Imagine you’re the cofounder of a startup hiring its first few software engineers, and there’s a candidate who smashes the technical interview, and is the only one to complete the full coding interview – doing so with time to spare. Their communication style is a bit unconventional, but this could be explained by language differences, and isn’t a red flag.

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Hiring, Recruitment, Security

13 points by guzik 22 days ago | 7 comments

Is the job market for software devs starting to improve? (ycombinator.com)
Are y'all receiving more messages from recruiters? I'm hearing anecdotes here and there so it'd be good to hear your experiences.

Software Development, Job Market, Recruitment

19 points by rizs12 24 days ago | 22 comments

Amazon is trying to stop people using AI to cheat in job interviews (businessinsider.com)
Amazon is cracking down on the use of AI tools in job interviews.

Amazon, AI, Hiring, Recruitment, Ethics

9 points by vedantnene 34 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters (skillsets.tech)
Discover the most wanted skills by recruiters

Data Analysis, Job Search, Skills, Recruitment

45 points by jurajstefanic 43 days ago | 37 comments

Show HN: Check How Qualified You Are for a Job (coderview-ai.com)

Job Search, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Recruitment

30 points by worthyrae 51 days ago | 3 comments

Canonical Recruitment Process (reddit.com)
Like thousands of other applicants, I went through Canonical’s extremely long hiring process (over four months: September 2024 → February 2025) for a software engineer position.

Hiring Process, Software Engineering, Canonical, Recruitment

6 points by RicoElectrico 55 days ago | 1 comments

Looking for work is a full time job (resumevue.com)
These are posts from hiring managers, recruiters to their private network, VC groups, private job boards, founders and startups, it's all here in one place

Job Hunting, Recruitment, Networking

50 points by Dallas_B 68 days ago | 52 comments

Hiring Cafe (hiring.cafe)

Hiring, Jobs, Recruitment

37 points by belter 70 days ago | 15 comments

The number of exceptional people: Fewer than 85 per 1M across key traits (sciencedirect.com)
Cognitive biases can lead to overestimating the expected prevalence of exceptional multi-talented candidates, leading to potential dissatisfaction in recruitment contexts.

Cognitive Science, Talent, Recruitment, Human Resources

12 points by paulpauper 70 days ago | 8 comments

Story of a Pentester Recruitment (silentsignal.eu)
In 2015, we published a blog post about the recruitment challenges we devised for candidates who’d like to join our pentester team. The post got much attention, with supportive comments and criticism as well. Learning from this experience, we created a completely new challenge that we’re retiring today, and we’d once again share our experiences (and the solutions!) we gained from this little game.

Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing, Recruitment, Security

6 points by ramimac 75 days ago | 0 comments

A job platform for developers by developers (built by an experienced developer) (devjobs.work)
We’re solving the issues that make job searching frustrating — irrelevant results, unclear salaries, and outdated hiring practices.Join us and make finding your next role easier.Recruiters/Employers: Partner with us to post your roles with clear salaries, remote policies, and the right details to connect with top developer talent. Let’s fix job searching together!

Software Development, Job Search, Recruitment

15 points by Youdaman 83 days ago | 10 comments

The Work Number (W2 salary service) (theworknumber.com)
Utilizing The Work Number® database, we’ll provide you differentiated and proprietary data that can give you a more holistic view of applicants.

Human Resources, Recruitment, Data, Salaries

5 points by cebert 108 days ago | 1 comments

Please take our programming assessment with an LLM (creatingvalue.substack.com)
I’m Trey, the Head of Engineering at Clipboard Health, and I want you to use an LLM to apply to our Software Engineering roles.

Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Recruitment

15 points by tg3 147 days ago | 0 comments

AI Is the Enshittification of Recruitment (beny23.github.io)
I. Want. To. Scream. Not so long ago, I reviewed about 1,000 CVs (resumes). 500 for a frontend developer position, about 500 for a backend developer position. You might think I was crazy, why don’t I let an agency do the sifting for me? Well, that wasn’t the thing that made me scream.

Artificial Intelligence, Recruitment, Technology, Human Resources

10 points by beny23 174 days ago | 0 comments

U.S. Navy Launched Subreddit Puzzle Game to Attract Submariners (forbes.com)
After years of struggling to meet recruiting goals, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced last Tuesday that the U.S. Navy exceeded its fiscal year 2024 goals, which had been set at 40,600—an increase from the two previous years.

Military, Recruitment, Video Games, Submarines

4 points by impish9208 179 days ago | 0 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 183 days ago | 90 comments

Tired of getting ghosted by companies? Let's call them out together (ghostedby.club)

Job Searching, Recruitment, Social Media, Community

14 points by kaliades 186 days ago | 14 comments

Mozilla is hiring for positions in Gen AI and Ads (mozilla.org)
Feel good about your work again

Mozilla, Generative AI, Advertising, Jobs, Recruitment

20 points by latexr 197 days ago | 9 comments

More than 8 in 10 recruiters say they post 'Ghost jobs' (fortune.com)

Hiring Practices, Job Market, Recruitment

15 points by conqrr 223 days ago | 5 comments

Jobhunters flood recruiters with AI-generated CVS (ft.com)