I see Jerry is Hiring posts pop up what feels like multiple times a week and rarely see these posts from other YC companies. I wonder if others notice this and feel they're posting too often or if I'm just over sensitive to it...
I can’t say I’ve noticed that, and it seems like they’re only posting once a week at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs</a> (I’m assuming each post only shows on the front page for a fraction of a day?)
Looks like other users have already explained that these are job ads and all that (thanks!) - but I'm curious what you guys think we should do. I don't want startups' job ads to be landing like spam in readers' minds. The only thing I can think of is to slow down the frequency—but it's currently limited to 1 per week, which already seemed pretty infrequent to me. Thoughts?<p>Btw if you want to take a look at the instructions we give to the startups about these ads, they're here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/jobguide.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/jobguide.html</a>.
All the YC companies get to post a Hiring here and it fixes at like spots 8-15 or so, an they all repeat as others have mentioned Smarking and BuildZoom are also frequent, there's a few others all on the Jobs page<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs</a>
You notice this on the front page, or when you're browsing /newest? I can't remember seeing these, but it's possible HN shows different users different YC hiring posts based on location or other criteria.
I do see those Jerry posts but also a few others like the one that searches for parking spots or whatever it was. I figure posting those ads is part of YC's function, or at any rate, that they know about it and are ok with it.<p>One tip to Jerry though: I'm usually very resistant to replying through consolidators like lever.co or angel.co. I'd rather deal with the company directly. I don't know how common that is.
I was going to complain about Hive's post today, which seemed out of place when originally posted with it's original title as "Why Hive Is Such A Uniquely Dope Place To Work" but it did get renamed to "Hive.co (YC S14) is hiring".<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29432218" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29432218</a>
Huh, haven't noticed that one but I was thinking the same thing about another company. Wonder if HN started targeting job postings resulting in repeat shows?
Perhaps if it bothers too much someone could construct a ublock filter to remove the "X is hiring" threads.<p>But generally I find it pretty easy to ignore.
they could be optimizing for how YC posts "new roles", essentially if they deleted their job posts and created a brand new one, YC would register it as a "new" post, so to answer your Q, they totally could be monopolizing it.