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I'm not looking but I am curious and maybe someone here can tell me the conversion rate of topics like this ?

Some of the job postings here are amazing on paper, but they never actually seem to materialize into a response. Not to brag, but I'm usually very over qualified and apply because I like the idea of a startup environment and I'm financially secure. Wondering how the other side feels.




Hiring is hard. From the company side, you might be a small company looking at a pile of 1000 resumes. It’s not tractable to send a personal response to everybody.

Nobody has the conversion rate numbers. I’ve hired excellent engineers through this channel though.


> I’ve hired excellent engineers through this channel though.

Before my post gets downvoted to oblivion, I'll take your word for it and thanks for the response. Hiring is genuinely hard. Good to hear there is actually some conversions.


Curious too.




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