I sort of feel like an out-of-context Twitter comment from several years ago is not the optimal way to start an HN conversation about recruiting math, but I wou

I sort of feel like an out-of-context Twitter comment from several years ago is not the optimal way to start an HN conversation about recruiting math, but I would like to emphasise that the tech industry heavily underinvests in funnel development for recruiting and that outsized returns are quite possible with reasonable amounts of effort. If you want to hop in the time machine and steal what was working wonderfully: back in 2018/2019 we'd routinely run Remote Coffees, which were just "get a few engineers and EMs on a Zoom call to chat in a semi-directed fashion about what they work on daily", and I'd drum up a few hundred attendees for those coffees every month, and then observe how the funnel performed over time.