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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. chaosharmonic · 1790209755 · focus · HN ↗

      That seems like something you could pretty easily solve for by just specifying that it's for multiple hires, or that the post is evergreen.

      I don't think anyone reasonable is saying that you can't or shouldn't be able to do that -- just that there should be good faith disclosures.

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