Are tech companies hiring?
Yes, but the shape matters more than the yes. Tech companies are posting roles, and a company with one or two openings is the ordinary case. What is rare is the broad engineering build: across the ten boards JobsPipe collects, only a small minority of hiring companies have three or more engineering roles open at once.
Tech company is not a field in a posting, so the question needs a definition before it can be answered. The industry route uses the employer's ISIC code, where computer programming and consultancy, information services such as data processing and hosting, and software publishing are what most people mean by tech. The skills route ignores industry and looks for engineering skills wherever they appear, which catches the bank, retailer or hospital hiring software engineers. The two definitions give different answers, and for a candidate the second is often the more useful, because it shows where the engineering jobs are rather than which companies call themselves tech.
To check by industry, call POST /v1/jobs/search with isic_division_or set to the software and computing divisions, status set to active and posted_at_max_age_days to bound the window, then group by the company field. To check by skill, drop the industry filter and set skills_or to python, aws, kubernetes or ci/cd, or job_title_or to software engineer and adjacent titles. Compare each against the unfiltered count for a share, and split by job_seniority_or to see how much of it is open to entry-level candidates. The sandbox endpoint needs no key for a first look.
The chart below is the base rate for the strongest tech hiring pattern. Because three or more concurrent engineering openings is so uncommon, a company that shows it has funded a build, and everything a larger engineering team consumes, from cloud spend to observability to security review, tends to follow. A daily watch with discovered_at_gte and min_employee_count surfaces the companies that cross the threshold, and the closed rows, with closed_at and closed_reason, show which builds stalled.
- companies with 3 plus engineering openings2.2%
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Related questions
Are tech companies still hiring software engineers?
Yes. Software engineering postings appear across the collected boards and across industries, not only at companies classified as tech. The open question for any individual is the level and the specialization, which a query split by job_seniority_or and skills_or answers for the current corpus better than a general statement can.
Are big tech companies hiring?
Check by name rather than by reputation: company_name_or with status active returns a company's live postings on the collected boards, with discovered_at on each row. Large employers that post through Workday, Greenhouse or their LinkedIn page are covered; one that posts only on a careers site JobsPipe does not collect shows nothing, which is a coverage gap rather than a freeze.
Are tech companies hiring entry level?
Some are, and the share differs by board and company. Set job_seniority_or to entry with the industry or skills filter to see the current cut, and read ghost_score on the rows, because evergreen junior requisitions at large employers can make entry-level demand look larger than it is. The entry-level share also differs by board, so compare boards with source_or before drawing a conclusion.
Are startups hiring?
The Y Combinator board is one of the ten collected sources and is the cleanest cut of early-stage hiring; combine it with max_employee_count for small companies on any board. Most startups have a single opening at a time, so a startup with several roles open in one function is the unusual case and usually follows a funding round.
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