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"HN Who's hiring is probably a low priority platform."

This has always surprised me. At several companies I've suggested to the hiring folks that they post on HN and I've rarely seen it happen. But IMHO, although you may not get a lot of candidates that way, I would imagine the signal/noise ratio is high, relative to the average recruiting channel. (Would be curious to see that (dis)confirmed.)

> (Recruiter's boss doesn't know what it is, hard to instrument for tracking metrics)

HN has a lot of very smart and talented people, but a lot more who think they are very smart and talented.

As someone on the other side, HN as a funnel isn't much better than a linked in job ad. Scanning through The Who Wants to be Hired thread might be better, but that's obviously more work.

I would be curious to know if Who's Hiring is recruiters or other devs/founders. I always assumed other devs or founders.

Companies job pages are very vague estimates of actual offering, especially at startups were everyone is incentivized to post more than existing to look good.

That is a very good point that I had actually forgotten. Yeah tons of jobs are fake, sometimes to boost how you look, sometimes to fake out the competition (let them overhire and burn up their runway.