> It got me thinking into how much of the hiring process is based on luck or other external factors that the candidate has no control over. Cue the old saw abo

> It got me thinking into how much of the hiring process is based on luck or other external factors that the candidate has no control over. Cue the old saw about how a hiring manager takes a stack of resumes, divides it in half, and then tosses them into the garbage: "we don't hire unlucky people".