9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX(9mothers.com)
0 points by ukd1 | 0 comments
Careers page for 9 Mothers, a YC-backed counter-drone defense startup in Austin listing seven onsite engineering and operations roles.
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A Princeton PhD Applied to 2,300 Jobs. He Still Can't Get One(wsj.com)
36 points by mid1110 | 34 comments
Wall Street Journal article about a Princeton PhD graduate who applied to 2,300 jobs without success amid a frozen labor market; the page shows a device-verification screen.
Hiring in tech is mostly bullshit(tej.as)
10 points by tejaskumar__ | 1 comments
Tejas Kumar's blog post criticizing tech company practices like bar raiser interviews, OKRs, the Spotify model and Agile.
The cost of getting a job today(weli.dev)
23 points by weli | 23 comments
A personal blog post by a new Head of Engineering at a startup reflecting on hiring and how much more than skills it takes to get a job today.
Sorry we made you grind LeetCode(hackerrank.com)
8 points by ishanz | 6 comments
A HackerRank page titled "Sorry, we made you grind l**tcode" apologizing for LeetCode-style interview prep and promoting its Chakra product.
The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail(blog.pentlander.com)
27 points by speckx | 24 comments
A blog post criticizing recruiter emails that recite a software engineer's career history as fake personalization before pitching unrelated jobs.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
254 points by whoishiring | 252 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for October 2026, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
110 points by whoishiring | 345 comments
Monthly Hacker News thread for October 2026 where job seekers post their location, remote preference, technologies, résumé and contact details.
Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview(mgrebler.substack.com)
45 points by fagnerbrack | 38 comments
A Substack post by Mark Grebler describing his practice of asking interviewers for real-time feedback as a closing move at the end of job interviews.
28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days(unlisted.careers)
234 points by rubatrejo | 298 comments
Unlisted's September 2026 ghost jobs report, finding 28.3% of 607,050 postings on employer career sites across 15 ATSs have been open more than 90 days.
Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly(evalapply.org)
84 points by pvdebbe | 13 comments
Blog post by Aditya Athalye recounting a hiring anecdote that avoided the Secretary Problem, framed within optimal stopping theory and the post-ZIRP software job market.
Did They Ghost You?(didtheyghostyou.com)
377 points by mooreds | 168 comments
Did They Ghost You? is a site keeping an anonymous, moderated public record of companies that stop responding to job candidates during interviews.
HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88(danunparsed.com)
927 points by sambellll | 395 comments
Blog post testing HackerRank's open-sourced AI hiring agent ATS, finding the same resume gets inconsistent scores across runs, arguing hiring is becoming luck-based.
The worst job interview I ever had(oliverio.dev)
587 points by oliverio | 470 comments
A personal blog post by a startup engineer recounting his worst job interview, a culture-fit interview that felt like an unsolicited psych evaluation.
I’ve joined Anthropic(twitter.com)
1366 points by dmarcos | 572 comments
Tweet by Andrej Karpathy announcing he has joined Anthropic to return to LLM R&D, while planning to resume his education work later.
The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code(techtrenches.dev)
1039 points by milkglass | 713 comments
Substack essay comparing the West's loss of defense manufacturing capacity to declining junior software engineer hiring and the erosion of coding skills.
Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept(marketwatch.com)
380 points by thisislife2 | 233 comments
MarketWatch article about employers using personal data to determine the lowest salary a candidate will accept; the page loaded a captcha verification screen.
I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job(theverge.com)
381 points by speckx | 385 comments
A Verge video feature in which reporter Hayden Field tries three AI interviewer platforms for real and mock jobs, shown here via a SchwarzTech snippet post.
Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager(jampa.dev)
514 points by jampa | 133 comments
A blog post by Jampa Uchoa sharing non-obvious lessons learned over ten years working as an engineering manager.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
338 points by whoishiring | 210 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for January 2026, where company employees post job openings with location and remote details.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
371 points by whoishiring | 432 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for November 2025, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens(thehill.com)
570 points by b_mc2 | 421 comments
The Hill opinion piece by Rudy Takala arguing that corporations try to hide job openings from US citizens to favor foreign visa workers, and are now failing.
Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war(businessinsider.com)
346 points by ripe | 618 comments
Business Insider exclusive on an internal Amazon document explaining why the company has largely stayed out of the competition for AI talent.
Flunking my Anthropic interview again(taylor.town)
329 points by surprisetalk | 304 comments
A personal blog post by Taylor recounting applying for Anthropic's Developer Relations role and failing the interview process a second time.
Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs(cnbc.com)
368 points by Teever | 192 comments
CNBC Make It article about a tech worker frustrated by ghost job ads who is campaigning for a national law banning them.
Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers(fortune.com)
539 points by robtherobber | 786 comments
Fortune article reporting that job candidates are avoiding AI-conducted interviews, with some saying they'd rather stay unemployed than talk to an AI interviewer.
Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills(hadid.dev)
403 points by mustaphah | 411 comments
Blog post by Mustapha Hadid arguing that live coding interviews are unfair and measure stress rather than actual coding ability.
Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)(michaelbastos.com)
384 points by mbastos | 296 comments
A personal blog post by Michael Bastos arguing that self-taught engineers often outperform peers; the screenshot shows his interactive resume homepage.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
358 points by whoishiring | 389 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for June 2025, where company employees post job openings with location and remote details.
Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI(kapwing.com)
347 points by justswim | 581 comments
Kapwing blog post by Eric Lu describing the experience of interviewing a software engineering candidate who used AI to prepare for or assist in the interview.
America desperately needs more air traffic controllers(cnn.com)
318 points by mooreds | 573 comments
CNN Business article examining the US shortage of air traffic controllers and why the FAA finds it so difficult to hire and train them.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
459 points by whoishiring | 446 comments
The monthly Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread for February 2025, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"(simonwillison.net)
392 points by twapi | 307 comments
Simon Willison blog post quoting Anthropic's job application form asking applicants not to use AI assistants when applying.
Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
464 points by ramesh31 | 598 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking how tech interviewing has changed now that candidates can solve coding problems with AI tools like GPT.
1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds(gizmodo.com)
358 points by belter | 305 comments
Gizmodo news article reporting a study finding that about one in five online job postings are fake or never filled, so-called ghost jobs.
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)(danluu.com)
594 points by janandonly | 504 comments
Dan Luu essay arguing against the idea that markets enforce efficiency, using examples like tech hiring and the difficulty of buying quality products and services.
Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs(arxiv.org)
346 points by JSeymourATL | 445 comments
arXiv economics paper by Hunter Ng using Glassdoor data and an LLM-BERT technique to estimate that up to 21% of job ads may be ghost jobs never meant to be filled.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
351 points by whoishiring | 321 comments
Monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for November 2024 where companies post job openings, with posting rules and links to search tools.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
409 points by whoishiring | 382 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for September 2024, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
Bug squash: An underrated interview question(blog.jez.io)
373 points by jez | 211 comments
Blog post describing the "bug squash" software engineering interview, where candidates find and fix a bug in an unfamiliar repository.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
341 points by whoishiring | 335 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for August 2024, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
Panic at the Job Market(matt.sh)
1573 points by speckx | 1374 comments
A long personal essay by Matt Stancliff on the state of the tech job market, covering job openings vs. interest rates, company structures, and getting hired.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
450 points by whoishiring | 440 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for July 2024, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews(nelson.cloud)
354 points by nelsonfigueroa | 380 comments
A short opinion blog post by a former Robinhood engineer complaining that LeetCode-style coding interviews don't reflect real software engineering work.
Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes(solipsys.co.uk)
436 points by ColinWright | 207 comments
Screenshot of a tweet describing hidden white-on-white prompt-injection text added to a resume to game AI-based candidate screening.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
326 points by whoishiring | 312 comments
The monthly Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread for March 2024, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
384 points by whoishiring | 357 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for February 2024, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)
357 points by whoishiring | 296 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for January 2024, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.
Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
443 points by jessehorne | 422 comments
Ask HN thread where users share side projects that helped them get hired and how the projects factored into interviews.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
443 points by whoishiring | 339 comments
The monthly Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread for December 2023, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
440 points by whoishiring | 426 comments
Monthly Hacker News Ask HN thread for October 2023 where companies post job openings, with guidelines on location, remote, and visa details.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)
337 points by whoishiring | 309 comments
Monthly Hacker News Ask HN thread for September 2023 where companies post job openings, with rules on location, remote, and visa details.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)
433 points by whoishiring | 366 comments
Monthly Ask HN thread for August 2023 where companies post job openings, with guidelines on location, remote, intern, and visa details.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)
358 points by whoishiring | 366 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for June 2023, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
331 points by whoishiring | 319 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for May 2023, where companies post job openings with location, remote, and visa details.
Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration(inkscape.org)
364 points by unglaublich | 167 comments
Inkscape news post announcing paid positions, including a senior C++ developer with gtkmm experience, to accelerate the project's migration to GTK4.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
381 points by whoishiring | 416 comments
Monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for April 2023 where company employees post job openings with location and remote/visa details.