Q3 2026 Hiring Report
Open jobs each week of the quarter, pulled directly from company career pages. Pick a company or a function to see its own numbers.
FAANG
Meta (Facebook), Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Alphabet (Google), the original 2013 grouping. Each parent's count includes its subsidiaries, so Alphabet includes Google, DeepMind, and Waymo.
Open jobs
Across companies: 3 of 5 grew, 2 shrank. The median company changed +11%.
Open jobs, top 6 functions
Top hirers by jobs added
By function
| Function | Trend | Added | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 6,562 | +9% | |
| Operations | 1,911 | +17% | |
| Sales | 1,646 | −4% | |
| Infrastructure | 1,024 | −17% | |
| Marketing | 805 | +18% | |
| Research | 790 | +6% | |
| Project Management | 546 | +42% | |
| Product Management | 538 | +14% | |
| Security | 439 | +1% | |
| Design | 372 | +6% | |
| Data | 292 | +29% | |
| Legal | 239 | +19% | |
| Safety | 220 | −26% | |
| Finance | 197 | +10% | |
| Customer Success | 154 | – | |
| Business Development | 124 | – | |
| Trades | 78 | – | |
| People | 62 | – | |
| Policy | 37 | – | |
| Consulting | 11 | – | |
| Other | 3,586 | −2% |
By seniority
Jul 1
Sep 30
- Intern & entry2% → 3%
- Early career (1-3 yrs)21% → 25%
- Senior (3-6 yrs)9% → 11%
- Staff / Lead (6-10 yrs)5% → 8%
- Principal+ (10+ yrs)1% → 2%
- Manager9% → 12%
- Director & above1% → 1%
- Not specified51% → 37%
| Level | Trend | Open | Share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 57 → 138 | 1% | +142% | |
| Entry (new grad) | 127 → 248 | 2% | +95% | |
| Early career (1-3 yrs) | 2,292 → 2,921 | 25% | +27% | |
| Senior (3-6 yrs) | 988 → 1,281 | 11% | +30% | |
| Staff / Lead (6-10 yrs) | 566 → 970 | 8% | +71% | |
| Principal+ (10+ yrs) | 110 → 189 | 2% | +72% | |
| Manager | 992 → 1,426 | 12% | +44% | |
| Director | 93 → 120 | 1% | +29% | |
| VP | 1 → 1 | 0% | – | |
| Counsel | 4 → 0 | 0% | – | |
| Not specified | 5,434 → 4,301 | 37% | −21% |
By location
In the US: 7,549 → 8,119 (+8%). Outside the US: 3,087 → 3,453 (+12%).
| Metro area | Trend | Open | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Bay Area | 1,821 → 1,750 | −4% | |
| Seattle | 303 → 315 | +4% | |
| New York City | 327 → 288 | −12% | |
| Bengaluru | 243 → 179 | −26% | |
| London | 136 → 177 | +30% | |
| Los Angeles | 170 → 155 | −9% | |
| Dublin | 135 → 152 | +13% | |
| Austin | 158 → 124 | −22% | |
| Tokyo | 84 → 108 | +29% | |
| Tel Aviv | 92 → 97 | +5% | |
| Washington DC | 104 → 92 | −12% | |
| Warsaw | 100 → 80 | −20% | |
| Other or not specified | 5,735 → 7,054 | +23% |
About the data
- These are open job postings on company career pages, not hires. An open role can stay up for weeks before someone is hired.
- Every number covers the 5 companies we tracked for all of Q3 2026, so each week compares the same companies.
- Also left out: the job board of Amazon. We couldn't fully see that board during Q3 2026, so its early weeks would read too low. Any other boards these companies run still count.
- Some companies list the same role in several cities, and each listing counts. For location, a job listed in several places counts once, under the first location the company lists.
- 67% of open jobs at the end of the quarter are outside the metro areas we map, or don't list a location we can read. They show as Other or not specified.
- 23 open jobs at the end of the quarter don't list a country we can read, so they are in neither the US nor the outside-the-US count.
- 37% of open jobs at the end of the quarter don't have a level we can read yet, so they show as Not specified.
- Jobs are grouped by function using each posting's title and description.
- Q3 2026 is our first full quarter of tracking, so there is no earlier quarter to compare with yet.
- We pull open roles directly from company career pages, refreshed daily, using only public sources and honoring each site's crawler preferences. More in our methodology.