Prestigious graduate jobs have a similar dynamic. At university I remember my friends applying for places at Goldman & McKinsey at ratios of hundreds of applic

Prestigious graduate jobs have a similar dynamic. At university I remember my friends applying for places at Goldman & McKinsey at ratios of hundreds of applications per job. These applications took time to make. Cumulatively the thousands of hours spend on interview prep per job may well have exceeded the total hours of work performed each successful job winner in their first year. It seemed so wasteful to see smart young people wasting their time on regurgitating corporate values & case studies for jobs they never got.