CircleCI’s hiring process had 1000 people enter their funnel as new candidates and 3 emerge as employees. Others have tabulated the rate of candidate->screen, s

CircleCI’s hiring process had 1000 people enter their funnel as new candidates and 3 emerge as employees. Others have tabulated the rate of candidate->screen, screen->onsite, and onsite->offer. If we make a conservative estimate of 1 hour of company time per considered resume (averaged across all steps, higher for those who get far into the process, lower for those pruned earlier), they burned at least half a head of employee time to hire 3 heads. That’s way too high an interview cost per hired head.