I interviewed maybe a few dozen people in my time at a larger company. I always got resumes but never saw a cover letter, so I don't know if people sent them in

I interviewed maybe a few dozen people in my time at a larger company. I always got resumes but never saw a cover letter, so I don't know if people sent them in or not. One of the hiring aspects I've heard is that interviews aren't terribly predictive of performance, but past accomplishments are, so I'd read through peoples' resumes and ask them about past projects and what they learned from them - seems like the best way to spend the time. But I was always surprised at how few of my fellow interviewers used the resume like that. So I was a bit surprised when I was on the other side of the table for my latest job and the interviewer did it to me. It's an impressively competent place and I'm glad to have gotten it.