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Very different experience than mine being on a hiring committee. The CS market has been so great that candidates have a lot of choice in where they land. We’d
by azhenley 3y ago
Very different experience than mine being on a hiring committee. The CS market has been so great that candidates have a lot of choice in where they land.
We’d sift through maybe 200 applications, quickly reject most (i.e., do they have any top pubs in the area we are hiring for?). Most of them were wildly out of scope.
Pick 10 from the remaining 30 applicants that we think (a) are the best and (b) would potentially accept the offer.
We had several failed searches after many, many interviews.
- chriskanan 3y agoThis has been my experience as well as a professor in CS.
- matthewdgreen 3y agoCS is going through the abundance phase of its cyclical mismatch between jobs-available and candidates seeking jobs. This is driven by a decade of healthy industry hiring, which has seen a lot of candidates (plus existing faculty) depart academia for greener pastures. (NB: if you happen to be in ML, then nothing you’re experiencing now should be viewed as normal — this an unusual hiring spree due to “hot field” FOMO.) Eventually the economy will cool down the way it did in the early 2000s and after the 2007/2008 cycle: then you’ll see what musical chairs looks like when the music stops.
- xhkkffbf 3y agoSo what if you're one of the 170 people who are easy to reject immediately? Are you a candidate who has a "lot of choice"? It would seem not.