> you reap the benefits by having a much, much larger pool of applications and talent to sift through Interviewing/hiring is incredibly noisy though. If SF eng

> you reap the benefits by having a much, much larger pool of applications and talent to sift through Interviewing/hiring is incredibly noisy though. If SF engineers have a much higher average skill than the rest of the world then you might still end up with better people if you just hire from SF rather than the world in general, even if the latter has a much wider pool with more top people in absolute numbers.