Tell HN: BuildZoom posts jobs on HN, but no actual openings available

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:

https://imgur.com/a/lz7FP0x https://imgur.com/TgKbcI4

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Not just them. Aha! is also notorious for this. Even recent startups like Jam.dev do this.

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.

Yes, sorry - the job ad system on HN has needed some work for years now. I'll see what I can do.

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.

There's also a company called MixRank that continuously posts the same openings but apparently never hires anyone.

They've been posting for a very long time

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39008011 and the rest of the thread

> Just wondering why a company posts a job on HN without having actual openings.

Ghost jobs. In addition to interviewers ghosting candidates, it's been a trend on the rise these past few years: https://www.forbes.com/sites/karadennison/2023/11/27/how-gho...

TL;DR there's 3 primary motivations:

1. -Lie- convince shareholders that they are still growing

2. -Lie- convince existing, overworked employees that help is coming

3. -Lie- conform to regulations for future offshorting/H1-B's.

#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.