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There are 7,500,000,000 people in the world. A lot more than 800 of them are good at their jobs.
by ISL 6y ago
There are 7,500,000,000 people in the world. A lot more than 800 of them are good at their jobs.
- paxys 6y ago800 hires a year means ~15 people starting every week. Every one of those 800 positions likely received hundreds of resumes, which needed to be sifted through. Then you need to have calls with each candidate, narrow down the pool further. Then all the onsite rounds. For an initial team of 200 that is an impossible task.
- ryanwaggoner 6y agoThe "initial" 200 people don't hire the next 800, they hire the next 1. Then the 201 people hire the next 1, and the 202 hire the next one, and so forth.
- gamblor956 6y agoI don't think many people on this board comprehend that there exist professionals at most companies whose sole responsibility is to identify, recruit, and onboard new employees. Or that most companies are willing to hire people who aren't perfect candidates because a fair amount of internal training is expected. Hiring only unicorn candidates who already have the perfect qualifications and don't need any training/onboarding is a peculiarly Silicon Valley phenomenon.
- ivalm 6y agoTo hire so many you have to hire a lot in parallel. Also, even once hired, probably the engineer shouldn't have "interview more engineers" as his first priority.