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Re:Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months by zdragnar on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:32PM (#33084696)
It is a pretty narrow segment of a much larger market, presumably.
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Re:Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months by whatshisface on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:34PM (#33084726)
"Startups quit hiring first," sounds like a leading indicator on the surface, but if you think about it that also means that they will stop hiring during smaller dips that later pick back up. Every big dip has to do through the smaller dip state, but since plenty of smaller dips recover it is still a martingale - unless it isn't, but if it isn't that's the cause of my surprise.
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Re:Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:47PM (#33084893)
That's basically true of all "leading indicators", and is summarized in the popular joke that "Economists have predicted 8 of the last 5 recessions".
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Re:Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:53PM (#33087569)
Yeah, there are literally thousands of tech companies that don’t use HN.
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