Who is Hiring each month seems to almost entirely be filled with positions for stack specific developers. Python dev here, React dev there.
"Engineer" shows up over 500 times in the March thread.
"Architect" shows up 23 times.
I know VPs that read HN. Where are the more senior level jobs for folks who have climbed the ladder out of writing code and are now architecting, managing teams, managing managers, directing divisions, etc?
- A large portion of the posts are for startups/small companies where senior positions are too expensive or not really needed yet
- A lot of companies prefer to fill senior positions via internal promotions/network hires rather than external postings
- There tend to be relatively few open senior positions to start with at a lot of companies. Competition for these roles is ridiculously intense, so they fill really quickly compared to lower level dev/engineer roles
- There's a (justified in my opinion) perception that most of the HN crowd is more suited to dev/engineer hiring than it is to more senior hiring, so the postings are going to naturally reflect that skew
In a similar vein, you could ask why Who's Hiring has so few posted positions for non-dev technical roles beyond entry-level product managers. The reasons are pretty similar to the above.