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Once again, you're misunderstanding the goal of the system if you think that it's necessary to deliberately whittle down hundreds of good applicants through careful process to get a great hire.

Hint: you don't even need to evaluate most candidates at all. Random sampling is sufficient and provably bias free.



Reminds me of something I heard once.

> Whenever I get a stack of resumes, I throw half of them in the trash

> I sure don't want unlucky people on my team.

What do you send them as a response "sorry, we're going ahead with other applicants" - "you have not been selected this time" -- what happens if you start needing to dig through that pool of now rejected candidates?

Peak humanity.


> what happens if you start needing to dig through that pool of now rejected candidates?

I acknowledge that I am reaching back out, and they may not be available.

Like a human does.

> Reminds me of something I heard once.

>> Whenever I get a stack of resumes, I throw half of them in the trash

>> I sure don't want unlucky people on my team.

I was actually about to make the same joke.




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