Comment by tristramb
2 days ago
"We need to run through hundreds of candidates per position, not a half dozen"
But you don't! You only need to find the first person who is good enough to do the job. You do not need to find the best person.
2 days ago
"We need to run through hundreds of candidates per position, not a half dozen"
But you don't! You only need to find the first person who is good enough to do the job. You do not need to find the best person.
You need to run through hundreds of candidates to find someone marginally qualified. I am not exaggerating.
Do we have different definitions of "marginally qualified"? Idk, I feel I'm a decent engineer - I can certainly do whatever leetcode medium they throw at me, as much as this counts of anything - and can actually code, but I still get maybe 1 callback per 50 applications.
Does "marginally qualified" mean "Ivy League Competitive Programmer PhD" or something?
> Do we have different definitions of "marginally qualified"?
Not every candidate is an interview. I recently hired. I got 90 applications and from these, 80% were an instant "No". They didn't match the job description or had no permit to work in my country. I invited the rest. Simple interview, pair-program a dead simple App with a prebuilt skeleton with me with any framework of choice. Make one GET request, render it and realize one needed optimization which needs to be implemented. 90% (I'm not joking) of candidates failed the first task. In half an hour, they couldn't send a GET request and translate that into JSON. All were allowed to google, open any documentation they liked. Of all 18 who failed, 16 asked me if they could use an LLM for this task, which I denied.
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The GP is still passing through hundreds of people, dozens of them capable, until he reaches somebody that convinces him of their competence. You were passed down because you weren't convincing enough.
Or maybe he is getting resumes from a channel that has been victim of machine-gun filling, and there indeed thousands of incompetent people posting resumes into every channel and just half a dozen real applicants.
TBF, I have no idea how to fix either one of those problems. Hiring is just completely broken.
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