#hiring

So there’s a business analyst role that was opened on my team, and no one on the team was never told about this opportunity. Leadership decided to hire a random person for this role, without giving anyone else a chance to apply. Is this an HR issue

I have seen a huge uptake in contingent hires.

Stock going up almost daily on good volume, earnings are better than expected and we are hiring hundreds

Our stock price is telling us that pay rises will be very high, way above cost of living

Seriously, “Decision Intelligence Director”??
It seems like for every one blue collar job posting there are 12 bs office postings.

There are so many jobs at AZ and Oregon,why are they still hiring lol

This company wastes everyone's time with its low ball offers. They act like people are willing to move half way across the world to a country with a totally different culture and then risk getting blown up by missiles for the same wages or lower than the job would pay back home. Even if I were unemployed, I would think twice before accepting this. Aramco keeps doing this delusional s#^t because management is completely out of touch and no one pushes back. At least posting these offers allows potential candidates to know what salary they are likely to get before they waste hours of their time applying and going through interviews. Many companies post salary ranges for a job to avoid this kind of problem, but I guess Aramco thinks it won't (can't) be held accountable.

Over the last couple years I found that mgmt here has decided they would rather use human capital or other headhunters to place sub-par people into upper mgmt roles than to take employee suggestions on who might be a good hire.

We have gone external for a lot of role - and not a single external hire has been impressive but they all get paid more than internals.

Like of course a head hunters firm that gets paid on placing candidates in your shop will tell you everyone walks on water other than your own employees….

What is this thing of departments having a revolving door of people coming in and going out in a matter of weeks.

Why nobody holds them accountable of poor judgement, biased hiring and dragging everyone down with their poor decisions.

What is this sh*t of "people's person" over technical skills too. Wasn't this hellhole supposed to be an engineering and science hub.

Stupid people with pseudo degrees in everything but oil and gas, I'd guess.

A lot of former EM at Crescent Energy. They are hiring quite a few people right now. Engineers, GIS, Lease operators, drilling, construction, operations, office staff, procurement, a wide variety of roles.

Wow. Quite a few internal job postings at woodcreek. Many in HR and commercial. A few in HSSE and Subsea IMR saying they are associated with restructuring? Who has insight on that?

Are they for real or fake? I am just surprised with how many jobs need to be filled while we are LR-ing so many. Makes no sense.

But at least they provided working class or middle class jobs.

Unlike my snobby local hospital systems and chains that hire their friends, family and insiders. Even Kaiser does nepo hiring.

It su-ked I was laid off at Cigna but grateful they gave me a chance as a total outsider.

Has anyone heard anything about EOG resources?

I’ve now seen 5 good people from Exxon leave for working at EOG and they have plenty of postings.

New unemployment claims in the United States have reached a 57-year low, indicating a resilient labor market. Worker productivity also saw stronger-than-expected growth in the third quarter. This surge in productivity has depressed labor costs, suggesting the labor market is not a significant driver of inflation. Despite this, ongoing global conflicts are impacting hiring decisions. Employers are holding onto existing staff, with announced hiring largely consisting of seasonal positions.

Washington, D.C.

https://www.bnd.com/news/nation-world/national/article317939510.html

Put your opinions below, I wonder what you think.

1. Incompetent VPs (and managers) get rid of their best and brightest just to look better, and strengthen their position.
2. The company is hiring, there are hundreds of jobs. Hiring priority shall be given to the laid off employees, so that they can transfer before their termination date. But laid off employees don't hear back, no communication at all.
3. There is no financial reason, or even accountability for a lay-off. People are laid off, but soon after others are hired for the same position. For example SVP of Enterprise Modeling and Analytics position was eliminated in the recent past. But exact same position is recently posted - check JR2982 at Fannie Mae’s Workday “SVP of EMA”

Hundreds being hired around the globe, HR suffering burnout due to all the hiring paperwork

Car parks rammed, not enough desks, coffee machines running out due to demand

Everyone wants to work for this growth company, we are heading to the moon - hold on tight !!!

I'm running into walls and I know people are leaving for new opportunities. Does anybody mind sharing where?

US job openings unexpectedly rose in September to a four-month high, indicating stronger employer demand. Layoffs also decreased to their lowest point in over a year. The number of available positions increased significantly, surpassing economist expectations. The quits rate, reflecting voluntary job departures, also climbed to its highest level in over a year. These trends suggest a resilient labor market with increasing employer confidence.

Washington, D.C.

http://www.staffingindustry.com/news/global-daily-news/us-job-openings-jump-to-4-month-high-layoffs-decline

I wonder how many of the jobs posted online are actually going to be filled. You can spend hours applying on LinkedIn and still get absolutely nowhere. The people I know who are finding work seem to have an inside contact or someone willing to put their name forward. Without that, this job market feels pretty discouraging.

If major layoffs are coming, why do we have so many open positions right now?

So, my team hired 3 new people, from temps agencies, and did not tell us. On top of that, we have been being offered to go home early, due to a lack of work. There's been zero transparency about anything. It feels fishy.

no hiring back for those MS laid off before?

Anyone know why hiring is up all of a sudden. It’s been slow all year long and now they want people from all backgrounds, even ex-convicts. Does not make sense.

John Deere is set to hire over 400 new employees and recall more than 275 previously laid-off workers. The company is bringing back nearly all employees who were on layoff in Waterloo and the Quad Cities. Additional hiring opportunities are available at plants in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas. This expansion aims to meet customer demand and prepare for future needs. The move signals a significant shift after recent rounds of job cuts.

https://hoodline.com/2026/10/john-deere-to-hire-400-recall-275-more-workers-at-waterloo-and-quad-cities-plants/

John Deere is bringing back over 275 laid-off employees and hiring more than 400 new workers across several states. This action aims to meet current customer demands and prepare for upcoming labor discussions. The company has recalled all previously laid-off workers at multiple Iowa and Illinois locations. Approximately 125 workers will remain on layoff in the Des Moines area. These recalls are part of a larger effort to bolster inventory and production capacity.

Moline, Illinois

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2026/11/01/deere-calling-back-hiring-hundreds-including-iowa/92545672007/

Was so damning they’ll never release it?
I mean it seems to me it’s gone into the deep dark recesses of digital file cabinets stashed in some digital no man’s land warehouse.
I’m thinking beginning of the new year, and I might be wrong, there’ll be a ton of job openings? Anyone think similarly on any of this?

And we are hiring people we PIPd as contractors after we PIP them! WTF!

This is messed up.

T-Mobile US hunts for engineers as humanoid efforts broaden

https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/t-mobile-us-hunts-for-engineers-as-humanoid-efforts-broaden/

Going into the holiday season belk is currently without a store manager at 6 store locations company wide. Some of these job openings have not been posted. Some locations have been without a store manager for over 60 days which indicates Belk is having trouble finding candidates either internally or externally who can fill the position, or perhaps the company’s reputation is causing a lack of interest from qualified candidates.

1.Fiserv is hiring and promoting people who lack the skills needed to do the job.They are not even trying to learn.

1. When you respond in a teams message to a question they present by asking a question
   they then take that question to another employee and return with that employee’s answer.- stop responding to them via team if you can.
   .3. These same people SETUP meetings that waste your time .- stop showing up or answering questions in these meetings.

Is anyone else feeling frustrated reading these news outlets? I know that the impact is far greater than what’s being reported. For instance, it’s being portrayed as if there were only about 1,000 layoffs, when in reality, it’s much more significant. Then, I come across an article stating that Comcast is hiring 1,100 new positions. So, are you suggesting that Comcast is hiring back more positions than they laid off?

Wondering if 3M screens/rejects specifically for THC for potential hires at 3M Center since legalization. Asking for a friend.

Looking for direct knowledge not speculation, either from being rejected or knowing they don't check/care.

I was laid off from Q a while ago. Quite a few things have happened since then. I found another job, in a remarkably similar business, and had some time to reflect.

One thing strikes me as particularly peculiar.

At Qualcomm, you could literally spend days without encountering an American-born engineer. Most of the people around me were from India, some from China, and others from various Asian countries.

I was repeatedly told why this was supposedly inevitable. Americans don't study hard enough. They don't pursue STEM careers. They lack discipline, technical competence, work ethic, and so forth. Vivek Ramaswamy was particularly eloquent in explaining all this.

I was also told, in no uncertain terms, that entire groups within Q would never hire a non-Indian engineer. The explanation was fascinating: American engineers supposedly wouldn't put up with certain management practices (hello Murthy), while employees dependent on their employers for immigration status would be much more accommodating.

Go figure.

Fast-forward to my new employer.

Similar industry. Similar technical complexity. Serious engineering challenges.

Except the overwhelming majority of engineers I encounter are American-born. There are some Indian engineers, of course, but nowhere near the proportions I saw at Q.

And guess what? The engineering gets done. Apparently, Americans can still do mathematics, write software, design complex systems, and solve difficult problems.

Perhaps Mr. Ramaswamy's explanation wasn't quite as brilliant as you imagined and quietly approved.

This experience has made me seriously suspect that what I witnessed at Qualcomm was not simply a shortage of qualified American engineers, but something considerably less flattering: hiring practices shaped by ethnic networks, favoritism, and managerial convenience.

I cannot overstate how widespread this was. I am also confident those same networks influenced who was protected during layoffs and who was expendable.

And here is the part worth reflecting on, particularly for those who participated in or benefited from such arrangements.

You may have convinced yourselves that you were practicing some form of Indian exceptionalism. That your networks were stronger, your people more capable, your management methods more effective, and that excluding outsiders was simply good business.

But a company is not an ethnic clubhouse. It exists in a competitive market.

When hiring becomes an exercise in loyalty and conformity rather than competence, the consequences eventually reach everyone—including those who thought the arrangement worked in their favor.

I have observed something else at Q. There was no shortage of people who could execute an established process, navigate corporate politics, manage upward, and keep the machinery running smoothly. Some were remarkably accomplished at it. (Hello again, Murthy.)

Give such an organization a well-defined problem and an established algorithm, and it can produce millions of lines of code implementing variations of bubble sort. Namaste.

But technological leadership demands something fundamentally different. It requires people willing to question the algorithm itself, challenge conventional wisdom, and occasionally invent an entirely new way of solving the problem.

There is a world of difference between implementing a Viterbi decoder and having the insight to recognize that a seemingly intractable problem can be transformed into a tractable trellis-based optimization.

And that brings me to Qualcomm's present difficulties.

Look at Qualcomm's stock performance. Compare it with the semiconductor industry. Even Intel, for years the laughingstock of Silicon Valley, has outperformed Q dramatically.

Of course, there are many ingredients in Qualcomm's troubles: strategic missteps, market dynamics, competition, and management decisions. I am not suggesting that ethnic favoritism explains all of them, or even most of them.

But I cannot help wondering whether they are related. After all, a corporate culture that rewards ethnic loyalty, conformity, and obedience over competence and independent judgment is hardly a recipe for technological leadership.

You cannot manage your way into a breakthrough that nobody is willing to imagine.

And now another round of layoffs.

For anyone who helped build or sustain those closed networks, perhaps this is a useful moment for reflection.

You may succeed in excluding your competition from the hiring process. You cannot exclude your competition from the marketplace.

American capitalism has a peculiar way of teaching that lesson.

And sometimes those who thought they were the beneficiaries of a system discover that they are among its casualties.

So the HR Leaders in Food reposted an HR Manager position they laid someone off out of earlier this year. They lay someone off, then repost in less than a year. How people first of them!

Why is Croney bringing all these Dishbags over from DIRECTV to lead Comcast? What part of DIRECTV’s track record made him think, “We need some of that”?

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If you were put on a coaching plan, then quit, Went someplace else for a few years, are you eligible for re-hire?

there are a lot of new/recent job reqs

https://eeho.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions

More layoffs are underway at Scripps, with the company revealing Tuesday it would eliminate 431 positions while adding 100 new jobs as part of an “enterprise-wide transformation.”

https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/scripps-lays-off-431-employees-promises-to-create-100-new-positions/