An important difference between overall budgets and job boards is that budgets tell you how all the resources are spent whereas job boards just tell you how (some of) the resources are spent on the margin. EA could spend a lot of money on some area and/or employ lots of people to work in that area without actively hiring new people. We’d miss that by just looking at the job board.
I think this is a nice suggestion for getting a rough idea of EA priorities but because of this + Habryka’s observation that the 80k job board is not representative of new jobs in and around EA, I’d caution against putting much weight on this.
An important difference between overall budgets and job boards is that budgets tell you how all the resources are spent whereas job boards just tell you how (some of) the resources are spent on the margin. EA could spend a lot of money on some area and/or employ lots of people to work in that area without actively hiring new people. We’d miss that by just looking at the job board.
I think this is a nice suggestion for getting a rough idea of EA priorities but because of this + Habryka’s observation that the 80k job board is not representative of new jobs in and around EA, I’d caution against putting much weight on this.