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HireKompass
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Issue #3 · Apr 20, 2026
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Austin + Bay Area · Dice + Indeed
Two metros, two sources, 5,513 IT postings.
This is the first HireKompass issue covering both Austin and the Bay Area, and the first to fold in Indeed alongside Dice. Bay Area edged out Austin in volume this week (2,877 vs 2,636), and the sharpest signal in each metro is a single company posting the same role 10+ times in seven days.
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5,513
IT postings, 7 days
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1,980
Contract / C2H
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495
Agency postings
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2
Metros covered
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Metro 01
Austin · 2,636 postings
2,160 from Dice, 476 from Indeed. 1,008 flagged contract or C2H.
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Struggling-to-fill signal
Jabil Circuit posted "DevOps CI/CD Engineer" 11 times this week.
Same requisition, same title, re-listed 11 times in seven days. Either the req is stuck in internal recruiting or they're ready to hear from agencies. Worth a direct call.
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Top 10 Austin companies to call this week
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Postings |
Sample role |
| Amazon.com Services | 64 | Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Advertising |
| Citi | 58 | Senior Python Developer, VP |
| Visa Inc. | 44 | Systems Engineer, Platform DevOps |
| UnitedHealth Group | 37 | Senior SWE, Typescript + AWS |
| AMD | 30 | GPU DevOps Engineering Manager |
| Charles Schwab | 25 | Senior Angular / Java Full Stack |
| Annapurna Labs | 24 | Sr. Firmware Engineer, ML Acceleration |
| ERCOT | 23 | Manager, AI & ML Engineering |
| Amazon Web Services | 20 | Senior SDE, BIOS / AWS Hardware |
| Jabil Circuit | 14 | DevOps CI/CD Engineer ↻11 |
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Metro 02
Bay Area · 2,877 postings
2,288 from Dice, 589 from Indeed. 972 flagged contract or C2H. New coverage this week.
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Struggling-to-fill signal
Annapurna Labs posted "Sr. Software Development Engineer" 12 times this week.
Annapurna is Amazon's silicon design arm (behind Graviton, Trainium, Inferentia). A dozen reposts of a single SDE req suggests a hiring ramp that internal recruiting is not keeping pace with. AI, silicon, and systems specialists have an opening here.
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Top 10 Bay Area companies to call this week
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Postings |
Sample role |
| Amazon.com Services | 76 | Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Video |
| Marvell Semiconductor | 76 | Advanced Package Yield / Data Engineer |
| Uber | 68 | Senior SWE, Backend Java Platform |
| Salesforce | 50 | Senior Voice Engineer |
| Citi | 48 | Senior Python Developer, VP |
| Annapurna Labs | 38 | Sr. SDE, ML Acceleration ↻12 |
| Roblox | 35 | Principal SWE, Connections |
| Amazon Web Services | 26 | Sr. Solutions Architect, AI Engineering |
| Pinterest | 25 | Security SWE II, Corporate Security |
| Visa Inc. | 23 | Staff SWE, Fullstack |
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Contract Watch
Where the contract volume actually lives
The big names in the Top 10 are running FTE requisitions. The real contract demand is coming from mid-market firms you have probably never called. Non-staffing clients posting the most contract and C2H roles this week.
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Austin
| JC Corporations | 8 |
| System Soft Technologies | 6 |
| Link Technologies | 5 |
| Chabez Tech | 5 |
| Calance | 5 |
| Stefanini | 5 |
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Bay Area
| Enexus Global | 22 |
| DGN Technologies | 19 |
| Software Guidance & Assistance | 9 |
| Aroha Technologies | 9 |
| AgreeYa Solutions | 8 |
| Cynet Systems | 8 |
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Competitor watch
Who's placing in your metros
Staffing firms with the most public IT postings over the last seven days. If they're openly posting, they're either backfilling bench or actively marketing a requisition.
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Austin
| Robert Half | 39 (26 C) |
| Motion Recruitment | 35 (16 C) |
| Kforce Technology | 32 (28 C) |
| Eliassen Group | 16 (15 C) |
| TEKsystems | 15 |
| Apex Systems | 15 |
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Bay Area
| Kforce Technology | 29 (27 C) |
| Motion Recruitment | 27 (11 C) |
| Robert Half | 22 (14 C) |
| TEKsystems | 20 |
| Apex Systems | 14 |
| Eliassen Group | 13 (12 C) |
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C = contract or C2H postings
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Data pulled from Dice and Indeed, April 13–19, 2026. Counts reflect active IT postings per company, deduplicated within each source. Agency-likelihood flags use contract language, repeat postings, and source signals.
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