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This is closely related to the claim "We only hire the top 1%". Yes, but when your competitors reject a candidate they don't just stop existing, eventually they
by mjlee 1y ago
This is closely related to the claim "We only hire the top 1%". Yes, but when your competitors reject a candidate they don't just stop existing, eventually they choose you.
- the_af 1y agoYes... Joel Spolsky puts it a bit uncharitably here [1]: > I’m exaggerating a lot, but the point is, when you select 1 out of 200 applicants, the other 199 don’t give up and go into plumbing (although I wish they would… plumbers are impossible to find). They apply again somewhere else, and contribute to some other employer’s self-delusions about how selective they are. ---- [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/