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Comment by s1k3s | Hacker News Reader

Their data is based on a survey. According to LinkedIn, the following number of jobs per company have been created in the past week:

Google 7k+

Apple 2k+

Amazon 39k+

Meta 2k+

If anyone has that premium feature (I don't have it anymore), you can check how the numbers changed over time.

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Here are screenshots of the LinkedIn Premium insights:

Google - https://pasteboard.co/X7VROVRXt9rE.png Apple - https://pasteboard.co/ILHP3rzuCmCZ.png Amazon - https://pasteboard.co/fKxc5gF1YIi5.png Meta - https://pasteboard.co/OSHCnfUE4V1B.png

I tried getting an interview for one of those LinkedIn posts and even though I had a really good starting point (successful internship within the last few months plus an internal referral from someone working in the group I applied for plus being a good fit based on my skills and education) I wasn't even invited for a first interview, only got a generic rejection by email. So I don't think these postings are all real.

Googler opinions are my own.

I don't understand how they could have Google's true job posting numbers. Many of our postings are for general SWE roles, and that posting could hide any number of actual openings.

Do not confusing job posting with openings. Companies have often posted advertisements for jobs they had no intent of hiring anyone for. The purpose is investors see those ads and think the company must be growing, even though management knows more people in that role would not translate it more profits in the future.

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