@HN - is there a reason why this was moved to the bottom of the comments list? everything else seems to be chronological and this post has 51 upvotes when i'm posting this. will you consider expanding your rules to make sure that companies include some information on these topics?
Past experience is that meta posts about how the hiring threads should be organized, what the posts should say, how companies should comport themselves, etc., tend to take over the thread if allowed to, so we treat them as off topic.
@dang Righto - so will you consider asking companies to include some of this information? It's basically impossible to compare job opportunities without it. If you see two similar postings, but one has a 6 week process with unpaid projects and the other is 3 weeks with whiteboarding and past project reviews, it really helps with your job search to be able to compare. Without this information, we're all flying blind.
Yes, I'd consider that as part of doing some more systematic work on the Who Is Hiring threads, and on the whole HN approach to jobs and hiring in general. It could all clearly be done in a way that was more valuable to everyone, probably an order of magnitude more valuable, which would be a nontrivial thing.
This is definitely near the top of our list of long-term intentions. It's not at the top, though. First there are some major technical projects that need to get out. Those should enable a next version of the API. After that I'd say the hiring stuff is probably #1.
