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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

302 points · 364 comments · rubatrejo

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. nitwit005 · 1790185176 · focus · HN ↗
  Then you'd still only have a small number of roles up, not the thousands of positions the article is showing for some companies. They'd be hiring hundreds of thousands a year if they were constantly interviewing for all of them, and I don't believe O'Reilly Auto Parts is recruiting people as quickly as a nation at war.
  1. shagie · 1790187337 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://careers.oreillyauto.com/us/en/c/information-technology-jobs" rel="nofollow">https://careers.oreillyauto.com/us/en/c/information-technolo...
    They've got a few open spots if you're interested in relocating to Springfield, MO (and even some entry level IT positions <a href="https://careers.oreillyauto.com/us/en/job/R203370/IT-Support-Analyst-I-Onsite-Position" rel="nofollow">https://careers.oreillyauto.com/us/en/job/R203370/IT-Support... - that one was posted 09/21/2026)
    georgel · 1790194284 · focus · HN ↗
    When I lived in the area about 6 years ago, I had 3rd party recruiters reach out to me about roles that they don't list. The whole region it felt like was 70% contractors (W-2 with the contracting firm), until the company really liked you and bought out your contract and converted you to an actual employee.
    Surprisingly I had better benefits at the two contracting firms than what employees were getting.

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