Difficulty in hiring qualified candidates in the tech industry despite a pool of job seekers

Signals over time

2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 6 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “I'm sure the author is going through a very hard time, and I want to say up front that it sucks and I hope he lands on his feet. Looking at his linkedin I see one programming job he had for more than a few months, and a lot that are about 8 months give or take. At one job he started as a programmer after a year and was moved to be a trainer, which he did for 2 more years. That's such a bad sign. The most likely explanation, to me, of this resume is that there's something more to this story. He gets hired, they give him a few months and then pull the plug. This pattern is there 5 or 6 times, and then one programming job longer than 2 years, which is remote. I don't know him and I can't say for sure, but this pattern of employment does not fill me with confidence. Then there are macro issues. He has spent almost his entire career doing Ruby on Rails, which is nearly dead. Jobs for Rails are at 2007 levels as a % of overall tech jobs, and going down year over year for a decade. The tech job market is also saturated with applicants in general. Finally, and overwhelmingly most importantly, he is only looking for fully remote jobs in Australia. Overall I would sa”

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• “I dunno, I don't work in Big Tech and I feel the commenter you're-replying-to's concerns. There is some sort of mismatch if my pipeline is this empty and this many qualified applicants are jobless and unhappy about it. Comp is fine and people can live wherever they want, but there is no way my team is going to meet its goal of doubling in size by the end of the year. I am also not sure the world is quite as discriminatory as you paint it as. I'm over 40. I'm a woman. It's a mixed bag; most places I interviewed during my last job search were very normal about everything. One place rejected me because I "can't thrive in a high-ambiguity environment" and I'm just like ... the interview consisted only of leetcode questions with one right answer, that I got right, so ... just say "our investors are all Republicans and I don't think we should be hiring trans people, yeah we clocked you btw." But it's honestly a lot more rare than I had expected going into it. I don't really know what's going on with tech right now, or what the future looks like, but despite AI, despite not being fresh out of school, it all fe”

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