HACKER Q&A
📣 jobmarket2023

Employers, what's your perspective on current hiring trends?


Much has been written about the experience of applying to tech jobs in 2023, and how frustrating, if not emotionally draining it is for many of us.

One of the most common experiences being to receive zero interest (ghosting or an automated rejection email) for a perfectly qualified candidate that applied on a timely, non-spammy manner.

However, we know less about the employers' perspective.

Which are some things that are less obvious to those not on the hiring side, which would help us understand why things are the way they are?

Is GPT behind this filtering, perhaps in an "unofficial" way?

Are you receiving a truly exhausting number of applications?

Are ChatGPT-powered applications a real problem (i.e. there's real hesitation as for the authenticity of a given profile), or those can be quickly detected and discarded?

Finally, you see trends in candidates that would quickly put them in the "no" bag?

  👤 nnurmanov Accepted Answer ✓
For some of our vacancies we are receiving hundreds of applications, this was not the case 2-3 years ago. Some applicants does not read the requirements, ATS rejects almost 90+ applicants. Still it is hard to find the best match,the person who is good at hard skills and is ready to work with us at least 6-12 months. We try to identify job hoppers and try to reject them as soon as possible. Referrals works best.