>All of a sudden the headline is: X out of Y Applicants for Positions Advertised By My Company Can't Program Theres an important point here that he didn't make

>All of a sudden the headline is: X out of Y Applicants for Positions Advertised By My Company Can't Program Theres an important point here that he didn't make. The ones that aren't remotely qualified to even apply for the position? They applied to all the positions at every company they could find. Of course they seem to outnumber the remotely competent programmers; they sent out far more resumes, and by all the non-scientific metrics they get counted that many more times. In particular, this line bothers me: 'How much time did you spend making sure your ad was sufficiently attractive to the star developers and a sufficient deterrent to the crappy ones?' Making the ad attractive to 'star developers' is not the issue here, making it less attractive to resume-spammers is.