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Rejecting 99% of candidates doesn't mean that the average developer gets rejected 99 times before being hired. It could equally well be that some candidates ge
by konschubert 5y ago
Rejecting 99% of candidates doesn't mean that the average developer gets rejected 99 times before being hired.
It could equally well be that some candidates get rejected 1000 times, while others get hired pretty quickly.
- gyulai 5y agoI knew that someone was going to pick up on the scent of Bayesian fallacy here ;-) ...though I think there's probably an economics-style-argument that can be made here that a market where companies reject a lot of candidates won't be in equilibrium if there are a lot of candidates who seldom get rejected. -- Whether the exact number is 9, 99, or 999, and what kind of measure of central tendency that number represents, whether it's a mean, a median, a mode, or whatever, has no real bearing on the argument I was making.