[Bighead1221]

How are companies allowed to post the same posting for the same roles month after month? If they are not able to find great candidate fits in this environment, and their employee counts are not moving on LinkedIn / crunchbase etc for months, can they get blacklisted from using this? I have seen several of these companies post again today

[dang]

We're not in a position to police that. We don't have the resources.

Even apart from that, I'm not sure how one could distinguish legit from non-legit cases, short of raiding company offices.

[kassner]

Let the market decide, I.e.: people comment and call out companies that do that. If the company cares, they can defend themselves, the same way we’re trying to defend the HN community.

I’ve pointed this out before [1], we need a way to call out bad actors, and not allowing for such comments is only protecting bad actors.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441921

[dang]

Such a 'market' would need to be regulated (or managed, or supported, pick whatever word you like) - it won't work as a free-for-all, and we don't have the resources to act as arbiter. That's the point I've been making in all those explanations I listed.

Basically it would need to be a product in its own right. That may well be valuable, there's probably a need for it, — in that sense I agree with you and the other commenters making similar points. But it's not something HN can be.

> not allowing for such comments is only protecting bad actors

It also protects good actors. There are bad and good actors on both the supply and demand side of these transactions. It's easy to forget that if one is personally identified only with one side or the other, but the hiring market is fraught these days.

[Bighead1221]

What about blacklisting companies that post the same links from their ATS platforms for months at a time? It may be difficult to track from an admin perspective but as an applicant that has been browsing this for a few months, a lot of these are easy to filter out

I can show examples from this current / latest monthly postings

[dang]

I don't know what a ATS platform is, but there are some companies which are nearly always hiring, so the appearance of a job post each month isn't dispositive.