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At this point I wonder if I should tell you explaining your statistics are incorrect. It's actually worse than you point out. Let's say you have a 1% of gettin
by candiodari 2y ago
At this point I wonder if I should tell you explaining your statistics are incorrect. It's actually worse than you point out.
Let's say you have a 1% of getting hired. And getting 2 offers is still getting hired, right? So the odds of getting hired after N interviews is:
1 - (1 - P)^N.
(because you have to be in the "not hired" 99% bucket every time)
For 5 interviews with P=1% => 4.9%
For 10 interviews with P=1% => 9.6%
For 20 interviews => 18.2%
50 interviews => 39.5%
It takes more than 68 interviews to get to a 50% chance of getting hired. And of course, the number of interviews can be infinite and you still won't have 100% odds.
- weatherlite 2y agoLol 4.9% I stand corrected then! My 1% chance figure is also pulled out of thin air, I have no idea how many candidates are being interviewed for a position. I'm sure there are thousands who are applying and much less than that get to the interview stage. Do Google/Meta/etc actually make the investment of interviewing hundreds of candidates for each SWE position? I have no idea.