HACKER Q&A
📣 samstave

Dang – May we please have multiple threads for askjob types?


This thread has evolved multiple times since inception (I was among the early who asked for a "who wants to be hired" thread.)

Now the threads get >500 comments some times...

May we please have a couple categories of threads - not every single engineer on HN (most of them are) not "Rockstar Whatever Hacker Term is loud these days) <-- and there are a ton of project/product manager, SWE, Security, blah blah blah... devops folks....

FLAGS, TAGS, or different threads for these?

I love the simplicity of HN, but does anyone find it kind of odd that for these threads, HN has literally the tech community as its beck and call...

This particular function could evolve.

(I've been on HN for 15+ years... I appreciate a lot of the nostalgic facility, however: change gunna change, and just as adding the whos hiring thread was a tumultuous change that took some course corrects... Its time to put a bit more planning in this.)

I am not a senior SWE. MANY are, and I shield/guide/assist them from a lot of distractions through tech management, and have managed incredible teams.

There are other roles and silos and verticals on HN, May we please branch this thread out a little further?

  👤 shaftway Accepted Answer ✓
Maybe dang could structure the existing posts a little better. Maybe the top comment in each thread is the category (SWE / SRE / SET / Whatever) and jobs are posted under that. Maybe dang could even lock the top level of comments so you're forced to post under those top level comments.

That way you can just collapse the roles you don't care about, but it doesn't result in a lot of threads spamming the main feed.

👤 grzm
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👤 codegeek
I don't think it is only for engineering jobs. Go ahead post any type of job that you want to be hired for. I have seen people doing that and even contacted some myself. I personally would love to see more roles like PM,Customer Success etc but not sure why you need a separate Ask HN thread for that.
👤 brudgers
My guess is the hiring threads exist as a pressure relief valve.

Exist to reasonably contain we-are-hiring and someone-please-hire-me submissions.

Basically I think they exist to gently moderate an intellectually dull class of economically motivated submissions and to lump HN’ers upvote to the top of the front page together in a short window.

—-> which doesn’t exactly answer your question.

More directly, the current method is the simplest thing that might work.

Part of working is avoiding making HN a job board.

Tags are a moderation load.

Even in the best case, two people will tend to tag things differently…or apply many tags for maximum reach.

Maybe hack something up to meet your expectations?

Good luck.

👤 Dracophoenix
While we're on the subject can we have a separate thread for hardware jobs/companies? I know that an idea like this can bifurcate into numerous subcategories and I'm also aware that HN isn't really a job board given that it wasn't build in mind for that purpose. However, a trial run with a general category such as "Hardware" would at least be a good test/start.
👤 dalmo3
There are 3rd party sites for just that. E.g https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/