Yes... 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

Yes... 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/