City ProfileMountain View · California · US

Mountain View

Mountain View hiring activity from Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads. Located in California.

Postings · May 2026+70%3-mo momentum
0
postings
this month
12-Mo Trend · 3-mo rollingJun '25 → May '26
1 low3-mo avg: 510 high
Rank · US
#21of 30 US cities
Remote-friendly · This month
—
Share of US postings
0.0%
3-Mo momentum
Rising+70% vs prior 3 mo
§ 00Hiring Volume

Climbed faster than the US baseline since the 2023 trough.

Annual totals for the last five years — every year shown is complete except 2026, hatched because it is still in progress.

Full yearPartial yearPeak year
All-time postings
2,951since 2011 · 182 months
−26% YoY2025 vs 2024
PEAK
330
'22
97
'23
58
'24
43
'25
27
'26
All-time total
2,951182 months
↑ Best year
2022330
↓ Worst full year
202543
Latest full year
2025−26% YoY
§ 01Compensation

Senior eng pays $44k across 2023–Present.

Median bands from the 59 Mountain View postings that disclosed USD pay across 2023–Present.

Senior eng · median · 2023–Present
USD44K
Range by seniority · 2023–Present
Senior$44k n=12
Staff+$162k – $193k n=34

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick on Senior = median.

Senior eng median · US peer cities · 2023–Present
Not enough other US cities clear the disclosure floor to chart a peer distribution yet.
§ 02Work Model

6 points more remote-friendly than the US baseline.

Trailing-12-month split, plus the yearly remote / hybrid / onsite mix all the way back.

Remote-friendly · Trailing 12 months
77%
+6 ptsvs US · 71%
Remote
2%
Hybrid
75%
Onsite-only
23%
Work-model mix · by year
Remote share is climbing back in '26
RemoteHybridOnsite
'11
58% rem.
'12
66% rem.
'13
53% rem.
'14
71% rem.
'15
26% rem.
'16
16% rem.
'17
16% rem.
'18
13% rem.
'19
23% rem.
'20
47% rem.
'21
76% rem.
'22
63% rem.
'23
52% rem.
'24
55% rem.
'25
67% rem.
'26
91% rem.
Trailing 12 months · Mountain View vs US
Mountain View77% remote-friendly
US average71% remote-friendly
§ 03City Signature

JavaScript tops Mountain View's skill mentions over the last 12 months.

Keywords counted across 61 Mountain View hiring posts. Posts frequently list multiple skills.

#01
Top SkillJavaScript
31mentions↑ 81%
Mentions · Last 12 Months
JUN '2551% of postingsMAY '26
Leaderboardlast 12 mo
01JavaScript+81%31
02Python+25%31
03TypeScript+337%25
04UX/UI—24
05Machine Learning−27%18
06C+++180%16
07Amazon Web Services (AWS)—14
08Linux (non-WSL)—14
09Make+145%14
10React−58%12
Movers · 12-month change
What’s moving
Trending↗
  • 01TypeScript+337%
  • 02C+++180%
  • 03Make+145%
  • 04JavaScript+81%
Cooling↘
  • 01Go−93%
  • 02PostgreSQL−91%
  • 03Redis−91%
  • 04Terraform−91%

98% of jobs include at least one technical skill · share of postings mentioning the skill (12 months through May 2026)

Role mix · Mountain View vs USShare of postings by role category, past 3 years
Mountain ViewUS baseline
Data Ml
over-indexed
19%
12%
+7 pts1.5×
Design
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.2×
Engineering
match
66%
69%
−3 pts1.0×
Executive
match
2%
2%
+0 pts1.2×
Finance Accounting
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Healthcare
match
0%
0%
0 pts0.0×
Legal Compliance
match
0%
0%
−0 pts0.0×
Marketing
match
5%
3%
+2 pts1.7×
Operations
match
3%
1%
+2 pts2.5×
Other
under-indexed
0%
3%
−3 pts0.0×
Product
match
5%
4%
+0 pts1.0×
Sales
match
1%
3%
−2 pts0.3×
About this page

Mountain View postings are extracted from monthly HN Who's Hiring? threads using location string matching against a curated city dictionary.

Caveats
  • ·Trust annual totals over single months — monthly counts can be small, and partial years (hatched) cover only part of the calendar.
  • ·Compensation bands use a trailing 3-year window; levels appear only when n ≥ 10.
  • ·Comparisons against the US baseline use the same time window on both sides — trailing 12 months for work model, the past 3 years for role mix.