How many of the HN "Who is Hiring" jobs are evergreen?
I keep seeing the same jobs for quite a few of the months. They tend to be somewhat generic. An example would be Jobs with "Philadelphia" in the title or body.Are these real jobs, or have the corporate scum begun polluting our job thread?
I've seen a number of posts that appear month after month. I've applied to a couple and they've been legit, but it's also clear why they're there month after month (e.g. low pay, but a unique opportunity).
DuckDuckGo is posting DevOps positions for over a year, both here and linkedin.
There are plenty plausible explanations why companies are doing that.
One could do guerrilla marketing using local job boards.
If you build SaaS software, you could anonymously create jobs on job boards for high paying job - and list use of your own SaaS tool as a requirement of being interviewed.
Would be a great, immoral way to get people using your tool.
It's all of the above. Every single realistic scenario you can imagine is likely happening simultaneously.
It’s crazy there’s no better way than the bloated LinkedIn jobs and indeed. I guess word of mouth and contribution to open source is the play.
It makes sense that there is at least some puffery