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Edit: Btw, please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you aren't: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit 2: sorry, I was totally wrong about that! see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106871

by mixmastamyk8 days ago|

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Huh? I cut and pasted from your first link above.

Also you removed/downvoted my request that asked posters to identify regions they are hiring from, specifically one about Stockholm. I’m curious what motivates such actions.

by dang8 days ago|

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Oh sorry, I totally missed that! Your use of quotation marks was just fine. I thought you were being snarky (as people sometimes do) and apologize for making the wrong assumption.

> Also you removed/downvoted my request that asked posters to identify regions they are hiring from

Do you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095800? I didn't remove or downvote it. I did detach it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095292 because it seemed to be a general comment that belonged at the top level, rather than a response to a particular job ad.

by mixmastamyk8 days ago|

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Well it applied to the Stockholm post mentioned. Some posts do mention it, others don't. I replied to a don't.

Wouldn't mind my post being moved to the "top" level, but in reality it means buried at the bottom. Especially since my account is a second-class citizen for some reason. Probably I had a bad day several years ago. :-/

by lbrito8 days ago|

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>please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you aren't

I searched thru algolia and that quote came at first from user queSide 1 month ago, not by mixmastamyk. Unless they're the same person or the search is flawed

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

by dang8 days ago|

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You're right - I got that wrong - more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106871.

by Bighead12218 days ago|

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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

by dang8 days ago|

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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.

by kassner7 days ago|

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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

by dang7 days ago|

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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.

by Bighead12218 days ago|

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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

by dang7 days ago|

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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.