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1. Aurornis · 1790183094 · focus · HN ↗

   This statistic constantly confuses people who haven't done hiring.

   If we decide we're going to grow headcount by 10 senior software engineers, we don't copy and paste the same job listing 10 times. We leave it open and collect resumes through that. At a large or fast growing company, we might never stop interviewing and hiring senior software engineers. The listing stays open for a year or more.

   There are also specialty roles where hiring takes months. I've had niche roles open where we didn't get any applicants with any experience on the topic for over 90 days on multiple occasions.

   1. mandeepj · 1790186420 · focus · HN ↗

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      1. mjr00 · 1790186648 · focus · HN ↗

         I've done hiring at AWS and many other companies and the OP is 100% accurate, so I don't know why you speak with such confidence

         You could argue that AWS doesn't know what they're doing but they also hire way more software developers than all but a handful of other companies

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