I see a HN job post from BuildZoom a couple of hours ago. If you click on the link, you will be taken to a job board which says no jobs are available.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40874189<p>Just wondering why a company posts a job on HN without having actual openings.<p>Is it some automated system to post jobs, or are companies using job posts as a marketing tactic?
I've been seeing job posts for them coming up at the top of HN and I always wondered what was going on. Roles often repeating, like Principal Engineer, posted for years now, look:<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/lz7FP0x" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/lz7FP0x</a>
<a href="https://imgur.com/TgKbcI4" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/TgKbcI4</a><p><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=buildzoom%20principal%20engineer&sort=byDate&type=job" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...</a>
Not just them. Aha! is also notorious for this. Even recent startups like Jam.dev do this.<p>Unfortunately a lot of companies use Who's Hiring as a way of keeping mind share / advertising. But they are not doing well so they can't actually hire you.
Some of the companies that post on “who's hiring” are not actually hiring too. I think they're using these fake openings to signal something to their competitors or investors.
See
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39008011">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39008011</a> and the rest of the thread
> Just wondering why a company posts a job on HN without having actual openings.<p>Ghost jobs. In addition to interviewers ghosting candidates, it's been a trend on the rise these past few years: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/karadennison/2023/11/27/how-ghost-job-postings-are-creating-a-false-sense-of-hope/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/karadennison/2023/11/27/how-gho...</a><p>TL;DR there's 3 primary motivations:<p>1. -Lie- convince shareholders that they are still growing<p>2. -Lie- convince existing, overworked employees that help is coming<p>3. -Lie- conform to regulations for future offshorting/H1-B's.<p>#1 thing I'd want looked into from these job boards. It's fraud in sheep's clothing.
I imagine many companies do it on many websites. They can use it to falsely signal to their VCs that they're trying to hire when they're actually not.