[samcheng]

I've posted on "Who's hiring" for years now, and hired many engineers from those posts. We reject the vast majority of candidates, and to those who we reject, it might seem like we can't hire "a single candidate." That's not true - if it were, I'd stop posting here!

[daredoes]

I was hired by this guy for my first job in Software Engineering after applying via Hacker News in 2018. True story!

[owebmaster]

> if it were, I'd stop posting here!

unless you (the royal you) are posting it for other motives other than hiring.

[s1mplicissimus]

Are you perchance gesturing towards stock owned companies trying to improve their public looks by creating a look of growing via ghost job postings?

[gigatree]

No, that couldn’t be it. Yes, the incentive exists for them to do that, but I’m sure their conscious wouldn’t let them lead people on and waste their time like that.

[lazyasciiart]

Maybe it's a subconscious motivation?

[owebmaster]

Also a premium ad spot for free. It would be interesting to see the CTR of these "campaigns".

[samcheng]

When I used "we" in my post, it's because I don't make hiring decisions unilaterally.