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I don't know why everyone in these threads is always obsessed with hit rate. It's totally irrelevant. It doesn't tell you anything. If your success rate is 90%
by bananaface 6y ago
I don't know why everyone in these threads is always obsessed with hit rate. It's totally irrelevant. It doesn't tell you anything.
If your success rate is 90%, you're probably applying for positions that pay less than you're worth. If you stretch your salary target, your hit rate will go down. 2% hit rate on $200k jobs is better than 90% hit rate on $40k jobs, end of discussion. Final salary relative to actual value is all that matters, and that's very hard to evaluate.
- scarface74 6y agoI’m living in a major metropolitan area on the east coast. The salary range locally for any level is at most $35K -$40K. That’s real money, but the interview process is not much different for the high end and the low end. It’s mostly based on skills and experience.
- jldugger 6y agoUnless you believe this is somehow affecting specific stages in the pipeline, I think it's a non-issue.
- bananaface 6y agoOf course it will affect specific stages more than others, but with these sample sizes variance within stages is already going to be large.
- jldugger 6y ago> Of course it will affect specific stages more than others I don't think thats particularly obvious; if a weak candidate is applying above their weight, I would think a resume/recruiter screen is just as likely to screen them out as a tech screen.
- bananaface 6y agoI think that's naive, but it doesn't matter either way if there's a large variance.