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"Evaluating" 5000 engineers a month almost seems low to me - they've been going full bore with advertising and have been on the top of reddit for the last month

"Evaluating" 5000 engineers a month almost seems low to me - they've been going full bore with advertising and have been on the top of reddit for the last month or two (and if I remember correctly I think I've seen them on twitter and FB). With this much spend I would have thought they'd have more candidates. Maybe thats a lot!

treis 9y ago
Google says there are 3,500,000 software engineers in the USA. If they are doing 5,000 a month, that means they are interviewing about 2% of all the engineers in the US each year. That's not totally accurate because it doesn't account for those breaking into the field or if international candidates are going through the process. Either way, that's a lot of candidates.
- CryoLogic 9y ago
  Define "software engineer"? I know for example the US gov puts basically all tech jobs in the same bucket of IT. Hardcore low-level assembly programmers with people who set up office on business machines. I would speculate the total number of people the average HN reader would consider a software engineer is much lower.
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- kearneyandy 9y ago
  5000 / 3,500,000 = 0.00142857142
  - lettergram 9y ago
    5000 a month 60,000 a year 0.01714 = 60,000 / 3,500,500 OR 1.714%
yaacov 9y ago
The only advertisements I see on Reddit anymore are from triplebyte. I'm not even looking for a job (still a student), and I won't be for at least another 9 months.
disease 9y ago
Seeing their ads, and only their ads, on reddit constantly since forever has rubbed me the wrong way.
- freehunter 9y ago
  I get that way with any ad I see or hear too much. The more I experience your advertisement, the less satisfied with your company or product I am going to become.
lettergram 9y ago
My prior experience is the top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830444 Further down the comment thread, the interviewer came on and shared information about my interview (essentially because I called them out for rude and smug - which IMO they were).

treis 9y ago

Google says there are 3,500,000 software engineers in the USA. If they are doing 5,000 a month, that means they are interviewing about 2% of all the engineers in the US each year. That's not totally accurate because it doesn't account for those breaking into the field or if international candidates are going through the process. Either way, that's a lot of candidates.

CryoLogic 9y ago
Define "software engineer"? I know for example the US gov puts basically all tech jobs in the same bucket of IT. Hardcore low-level assembly programmers with people who set up office on business machines. I would speculate the total number of people the average HN reader would consider a software engineer is much lower.
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kearneyandy 9y ago
5000 / 3,500,000 = 0.00142857142
- lettergram 9y ago
  5000 a month 60,000 a year 0.01714 = 60,000 / 3,500,500 OR 1.714%

yaacov 9y ago

The only advertisements I see on Reddit anymore are from triplebyte. I'm not even looking for a job (still a student), and I won't be for at least another 9 months.

disease 9y ago

Seeing their ads, and only their ads, on reddit constantly since forever has rubbed me the wrong way.

freehunter 9y ago
I get that way with any ad I see or hear too much. The more I experience your advertisement, the less satisfied with your company or product I am going to become.

lettergram 9y ago

My prior experience is the top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830444 Further down the comment thread, the interviewer came on and shared information about my interview (essentially because I called them out for rude and smug - which IMO they were).