Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)

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Overall hiring landscape

  • Very large, diverse set of companies hiring: early‑stage startups, profitable bootstrapped firms, growth‑stage, and big tech.
  • Domains span AI/ML infrastructure and agents, fintech and payments, healthcare, education, civic tech, gaming, robotics, hardware/supply chain, real estate, energy, and devtools.
  • Many roles are senior or staff‑level (backend, full‑stack, infra, ML/AI, product engineers), but there are also junior roles, internships, IT/system admin, product, design, sales, and support.

Remote vs onsite and geography

  • Mix of fully‑remote, hybrid, and strictly onsite roles.
  • Remote jobs often restrict to specific regions or time zones (e.g., US only, EU only, GMT‑8 to GMT+2, CET±2h).
  • Some posts are explicit about not sponsoring visas; a few call out which visas they do support; others require US persons or specific US states.
  • Commenters ask whether “US‑based” roles can be done fully remote from EU; some posts clarify they will not consider US‑based candidates at all for certain low‑comp roles.

Tech and AI trends

  • Heavy emphasis on AI and “agentic” systems: LLM apps, RAG, multimodal models, MLOps, AI observability, AI‑native products, and AI‑assisted development.
  • Common stacks: TypeScript/React/Next.js, Python/FastAPI/Django, Go, Rust, Elixir, Java, Postgres, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP.
  • Several teams explicitly state daily use of tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and other AI coding assistants.

Compensation and transparency

  • Compensation ranges from relatively low (one global remote job in the ~$24–48k range, which draws criticism) to very high (multiple $200k+ base or $280k+ total comp roles).
  • Some companies provide public compensation calculators or detailed band ranges; others are vague or say “very competitive”.
  • Equity is frequently offered, especially at startups; some highlight profit‑sharing or phantom stock.

Meta discussion and concerns

  • Users question vague marketing sites (“what does your software actually do?”), downed links, and job posts listing many cities apparently for search visibility.
  • One salary level and “no US candidates” stance is explicitly criticized and downvoted.
  • A moderator intervenes on a flagged comment, reminds posters of HN guidelines, and notes that spammy accounts are banned.
  • There are requests to prune outdated “search/aggregator” tools from the thread index.