The Random Recruiter

Tech Recruiter with over a decade of recruiting experience. 1k+ placements & $20M+ profit billed. Insights on careers, job search + memes. | @juicebox_work

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NEW: Jensen Huang from Nvidia admits to infidelity with his wife with a Chinese spy saying in a memo to staff:

“I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry. I love our country and our company, and I am committed to protecting Nvidia and supporting America’s national security."

He should have just gone with the "honeydicking" angle.

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Microsoft is doubling down on entry level candidates, and more companies should be paying attention.

AI isn't going to replace literally every job.

At some point there's going to be a changing of the guard from boomers to millennials and Gen Z. Your boomer boss and CEO things today won't be there forever.

Companies should definitely be implementing AI across the enterprise but they shouldn't abandon entry level hiring because of it. If you stop bringing in juniors now, who's ready to step in when your seniors retire?

Succession doesn't happen overnight. Someone has to start at the bottom today to be running the place in 10-15 years.

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@joegetsyouhired

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@goatropecapital

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I'm proud to announce our company just had its best month ever.

Record revenue. Record margins. Record everything.

A lot of people asked how we'd reward the team. Some suggested a cash bonus.

I thought about it. Then I asked myself a question: what would actually bring us closer together?

So we did something better. We threw a potluck.

Everyone brought a dish from home. Sarah from accounting made her famous seven layer dip. Mike in sales brought a rotisserie chicken. Our intern brought napkins, because he can't afford groceries on his $17.50 hourly wage.

Watching the team share food they paid for themselves to celebrate revenue they made for us was one of the proudest moments of my career.

A bonus is spent in a week. A potluck is a memory that lasts forever.

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@buildandshipai Why buy pizza when we can get our employees to bring their own food?

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@creillystocks

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@njshoreknicks He might be one of the most overrated players in the league

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@joegetsyouhired Looks like AI isn’t taking my job yet lol

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@RandallKanna Pure FE roles are few and far between these days from where I sit granted I’m a small corner of the market

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@TiffanyFong They want to keep their residents Low T

[Joe P @joegetsyouhired]

Open mobile and front end roles nearly halved in a year is a big shift.

The work isn't going away, it's consolidating. Companies want fewer engineers who can cover more ground.

If you're in mobile, become cross platform.

If you're a front end engineer, become full stack.

And put it on your resume clearly so it gets matched to the roles that are still growing.

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@tcarpenter216 At least for the one bank I recruit for they’re blending it with one type of flavor of an AI Engineer

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There's a lot of truth in this.

Here's what I'm seeing from my desk, and remember my clients aren’t in tech, I recruit tech roles for banks:

- PM and PO openings are way up. We barely saw them from 2022 to 2025, and in 2026 they're one of our biggest job orders.

- SWE is still my bread and butter closing in on 50 placements this year with lots of Java and Python.

- Couldn’t tell you the last time I received a creative or design role. That space has been dead in my corner of the market since 2022 2H.

- Most of our placements are outside of SF in NYC, NJ, Charlotte, and Dallas.

- Remote roles are few and far between. They're mostly at mid-market companies and barely exist at the F500s.

- And the banks are hiring a ton.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

STATE OF THE TECH JOB MARKET IN 2026

Twice a year, I dig into trends in hiring and job openings. This is the fifth report I've done, and the most surprising yet:

1. PMs are winning in the AI era
2. Engineering demand has stalled
3. Design openings are at a record low
4. Every role now requires AI skills
5. Tech jobs are concentrating in the Bay Area
6. Remote roles are at a record low
7. The tech job market is growing fast, but mostly outside of software (gasp!)

Full report here: https://t.co/Gly6uqwKxe

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@unusual_whales HR approves of this message

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@unnanouncedvc Every bank has them as their primary language

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@RandallKanna And sales if you’re counting roles outside engineering

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@joegetsyouhired Granted I’m only a small corner of the market but it’s been a long time since I received an iOS / android role, and pure FE roles have been few and far between

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@tdesseyn

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@lennysan @HungLee

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@joelhooks @ns123abc Yes but tech oligarchs can’t complain about the public opposing data centers when they only hear the latter