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r/recruitinghell
Job seekers vent about frustrating hiring practices such as ghosting, lengthy interview rounds, unrealistic requirements and automated rejections.
Weekly data through Sep 27, 2026
Three years, week by week
Weekly activity in r/recruitinghell
Three years of weekly history. Download any chart as a PNG.
Week ending Sep 27, 202618.6K−3.7% on the same week a year earlier
Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC week, dated by the Sunday it closed. The busiest week in the range is marked, and the quietest where it stands well apart.
Week ending Aug 30, 20268,763+4.3% on the same week a year earlier
Accounts that posted or commented in the week, each counted once. Updated monthly.
Week ending Sep 27, 20261.52M+26.7% on the same week a year earlier
The member count Reddit shows for the community, read once a week.
Week ending Sep 27, 2026Weekly posts893−9.2% on the same week a year earlierWeekly comments17.7K−3.4% on the same week a year earlier
Posts on the left scale, comments on the right. Each series is auto-scaled.
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| Community | Weekly contributions Left axis | Members Right axis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Since Oct 8, 2023 | Since the week before | Value | Since Oct 8, 2023 | Since the week before | |
| r/recruitinghell | 18.6K | +35.7% | +10.4% from Sep 20 | 1.52M | +177.6% | +1.2% from Sep 20 |
Public posts plus comments in each complete Monday-to-Sunday week, UTC. Members are the member count Reddit shows for the community, one reading a week. Solid lines use the left scale and dashed lines the right. Each scale is auto-scaled.
Activity pattern
Why r/recruitinghell is classified as Steady
Oscylo reads the newest 52 weeks of posts, comments and unique contributors and gives each subreddit one of the patterns below. The figures behind the label are shown beside it.
r/recruitinghell shows no strong, consistent direction across contributions and contributors. Individual weeks can still vary.
How the label is read
The busiest four weeks against the quietest, with the yearly trend taken out. At 2.5× or more the year counts as concentrated: Seasonal if the busy weeks came at the same time in earlier years, Event-driven if they did not, and Variable when there is too little history to tell.
To be considered Rising, a subreddit needs posts and comments up 20% or more over the year, with unique contributors also rising. Cooling is the same in reverse, and anything between is Steady. The trend is a line fitted through all 52 weeks, so a single busy week barely moves it.
Week ending Sep 27, 2026Newest 52 weeks18.6KThe 52 weeks before19.3K
The 52 weeks before are drawn on the same calendar, so each week lines up with the matching week of the previous year.
Community anatomy
r/recruitinghell statistics
Six measures of how the community posts and replies, averaged over the twelve weeks from Jun 8, 2026 to Aug 30, 2026. Each bar places r/recruitinghell among every subreddit on Oscylo; the diamond marks the middle of its topic.
19.4 comments for each new post
Higher than 55% of subreddits. Education & career middle: 13.2.
54% of comments reply to another comment
Higher than 71% of subreddits. Education & career middle: 52%.
76% of new posts are text rather than links or media
Higher than 82% of subreddits. Education & career middle: 91%.
2.3 posts and comments per unique contributor each week
Higher than 49% of subreddits. Education & career middle: 2.5.
4.9% of posts come from the busiest 1% of posting accounts
Higher than 41% of subreddits. Education & career middle: 4.5%.
6.0 unique contributors in the latest week for every 1,000 members
Higher than 51% of subreddits. Education & career middle: 5.7.
Score is upvotes minus downvotes a day or more after the post or comment was made, over the same twelve weeks. Outlined bars show the average mix across every subreddit on Oscylo.
Against its category
r/recruitinghell beside every Education & career subreddit
Posts and comments in r/recruitinghell are −9.2% year over year. The middle Education & career subreddit is at +8.0%.
Each subreddit's newest four weeks of posts and comments against the same four weeks a year earlier. The scale stretches near zero and compresses the extremes, and changes beyond +400% sit at the edge.
Data and sharing
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Weekly posts, comments, unique contributors and members for r/recruitinghell, one row per week across the three years shown here.
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Oscylo. r/recruitinghell weekly activity. oscylo.com/sub/recruitinghell, weeks through Sep 27, 2026.
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