I’ve seen this several times now: “everyone loved you and we just decided that now is not the right time to hire for this role” then for the next three months the same exact job is a promoted listing floating on my LinkedIn home page right margin.

Yeah and also a couple of startups continue posting for months in the Who Hiring thread but checking their profile on LinkedIn they are not growing. I understand that there is a need to show outward success but just post the positions on your careers page and simply don't interview people. Or they simply looking for core Rails contributor who is ok with 50,000USD/year

I wonder if this isn't to document the requirement for H-1B visas that they tried to find a local candidate but were unable.

https://nearshoreamericas.com/us-makes-h1b-visa-harder-obtai...

Wouldn't it be hysterical if the hiring process all these companies are cargo-culting was actually designed to not hire people so H-1Bs could be used.

"Pay is bad but we'll make you jump extra hoops to get it"