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Startup vs enterprise framing in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts. How companies sell themselves over time, charted by share of postings since 2011, with the real listings.
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Each calendar month since 2011 as one bar. Switch to share % to stack the bands to 100% and see each side’s slice of the Who is hiring? postings, narrow the window, or click any month to read the postings behind the bar.
Startup versus enterprise is less about technology than about how companies sell themselves to candidates. The chart tracks which framing dominates over time - the scrappy 'early-stage startup' pitch versus the stability of 'established enterprise' - and how that balance moves with the funding climate. The relative bands show the swing. Read the sample postings to see the language each kind of employer leans on.
ALBERT | REMOTE ALMOST ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD| Hiring principal and distinguished engineers to build net new products | up to ~ $750k Hiring: exceptional consumer product engineers at Albert. We're a consumer fintech with 20M+ users who trust us to budget, save, invest, and bank…
Reef Technologies | Senior Python Backend Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time Salary: 45-70 USD per hour, or 7560-11760 USD a month (assuming 40 hours per week). Hourly rates typically adjusted annually. We’re all about the backend! As a fully remote Python software house, we comprise…
MTA (think trains and buses) | Full-time | NYC | 3x week in office We're looking for two frontend software engineers! (Interviews are starting this week, we're very ready.) Our team works on all the (non-ad) screens in the subway, as well as two apps (TrainTime and the MTA app)…
Grist Labs | Systems Engineer | Full-time | NYC OR REMOTE + - 3hrs | https: getgrist.com We're looking for someone to make our modern spreadsheet software run everywhere. To apply, there's a puzzle. Just do: docker run -it gristlabs grist-twist and poke around. If the words…
Checkly | Multiple Roles | REMOTE | Full time | https: www.checklyhq.com Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and…
String ( https: www.usestring.ai ) | Founding Engineer | ONSITE - NYC, SF | $170k-220k salary + equity and benefits | Will sponsor any visa Collecting data from the web is painful with custom scripts everywhere, Cloudflare roadblocks, and pricey infrastructure. I’m Rohit, the…
How job posts frame themselves: scrappy startup versus established enterprise.
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