[bredren]

In my experience, long-standing unexplained openings in small companies, including early stage startups, are signal that something is wrong.

I did see this in one example in the “who’s hiring” thread here, but also in following the newsletter for a startup I applied to.

Two reasons I saw in my last job hunt:

1. The company is lowballing wages.

2. The hiring manager for the position does not want to hire or is not aligned with the startup team‘s decision that they should hire for the role.

You can get good at qualifying for these scenarios early, but if you don’t have experience looking for and actively screening these out, a list of repeat posts might save some people time.

At least it might add weight to a possible dismissal.

[swyx]

or they could be growing so fast they keep hiring more SWEs