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Comment by Lammy | Hacker News Reader

I'm already there with the monthly HN hiring threads. Not one of those companies over several years ever responded to me, even the ones where the listing felt tailor made for me, even the ones that literally said they respond to all applicants. They're a total waste of time lol

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Seems like it would be beneficial to the community for someone to add some kind of a rating system for people posting in the HN hiring threads. I would expect at minimum to get a response.

Internet has gone to shit. It used to be much easier to find genuine people on the internet. Now, it is all marketing non-sense and filled with get-rich types.

Naah! it would ended up like Glassdoors which keeps deleting posts that don't serve the company narrative..

I assumed that was upvoting?

Well, downvoting in the case discussing ghosting, right? But just like any voting system one datum doesn't really tell the story. Since creating throwaway accounts is pretty normal around here, I'd guess the solution is to reply to the posting calling out the "can't even be bothered to say fuck off" to warn others not to bother. Bonus points for doing that every month when they inevitably repost their fake listing next time

My thoughts exactly. I haven't really tried many of the HN monthly postings myself very often, but once in a while I see something irresistible. But they never respond. Or they have an auto responder which doesn't count in my book.

When one company never responded, I added a comment to their ad the next month saying as much. The poor guy had to make up something about a spam filter.

Some kind of rating system would be helpful.

The HN hiring thread is seemingly used by people to promote their company / org more than to actually hire people.

I think in a lot of cases HN job postings are from "companies" in such an early stage that they're not even sure if they've got funding. They post something thinking they're going to get funding to hire, but then it falls through. I put "companies" in quotes here because it's more like an idea for a company than an actual company.

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