Comment by micw

7 months ago

Wait, 64 million applicants, not applications? That's like 20% of the US population!

Others have said it's for the global site, but would 64 million really be that off for the US?

I just looked it up 13 of the 40k francises are in the US. Assuming linearity, thats about 21 million US applicants since they started keeping centralized, digital records.

20% of Americans younger than 40 is not a bad guess.

  • Which is 1,615 applicants per US franchise.

    Seems totally reasonable to me.

    2 shifts of 12 employees is 24 employees per day. Assume they all work there for 6 months on average, then if the system's been up for 10 years, that's 480 employees per franchise over a decade. Which means for every employee they hired, 2 were either rejected or chose not to work there.

    Working at McD's is something a lot of people do for a few months when they're young.

No its 64 million chatbot interactions that instantiated it at all

Its not as deep as the guesses

Maybe it includes applications outside the US?

  • They use this site for hiring globally. The number of privacy regulators they will have to notify and deal with is going to make this messy.

    • If this was disclosed via a vulnerability disclosure or bug bounty program and there are no indicators of a data breach then it's effectively like the findings from a pen-test so very likely no regulatory reporting requirements.