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I agree with you for the most part. However, I don't think any of the companies that reached out to me ever post on the "Who is hiring" thread.

Maybe my situation was an edge case -- I'm a C# developer, and I think my post stayed within the top 5 most of the time. So others may not have had the same experience, which is why I wanted to gather more feedback. If many others had a similar experience, then I think the "Who is hiring" thread may not be enough, or may need some tweaking.

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Yeah, I think that's most of how it could generate benefit, i.e. companies often don't want to post in much the same way that applicants often don't want to pitch. It's easy to find plausible excuses.

Highly-sorted posts are almost certainly an edge case, but convolved against other factors (e.g. relative popularity of C#, how well post resonated with the subset of hiring viewers who ended up seeing it). Whoever ended up with post #70 likely got far fewer views relative to post quality & desirability factors, and thus fewer responses.

But at the same time, "uncommon yet high-demand" keywords probably got a Ctrl+F bonus. It's an SEO problem as much as a pitching problem, and more so if you're not favored by HN's comment sorting.