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75,000 applications a week? Guess I shouldn't be surprised with how big of a company Google is, but still crazy to see that number.
by Bossman 16y ago
75,000 applications a week? Guess I shouldn't be surprised with how big of a company Google is, but still crazy to see that number.
- Stormbringer 16y agoBy my rough calculations they're hiring 1 person for every 650 applications. That's quite the winnowing process. If they have two pre-qualifying rounds of CV burning where at each stage they trash 80% of the CVs, then they'd be down to about 26 before even talking to anyone. Now four rounds of interviews where 50% of the people are eliminated and you still have 1.625 people left...
- larsberg 16y agoWe used to have ridiculous numbers like that at MSFT. If Google is reporting them the same way, they're not counting re-applications and people who are completely unqualified and either hoping for a lottery win or are just satisfying some unemployment requirement. Seriously, the recruiting folks told me that the vast majority of the "blind submit" resumes that came in via e-mail and website forms were unchanged duplicates of things already in the database.
- michaelcampbell 16y agoI may be misremembering, but I think that figure was the record high; it's not an ongoing rate.