Apparently they invite about 10% of the applicants for the interviews (I've read somewhere last year they had 5k applications and 400 interviews). This obviously must depend on the number of applications.
IIRC this time they had about 500 applications and no fixed number of slots. In a previous round they had 30 interviewees and I think 13 were picked...
They get 39 applicants per job, but how many of those are actually going through the hiring process? In my experience most resumes end up getting looked at and not considered as a candidate.
Well by the math applying and getting accepted is a long shot. If they review thousands of applications (say 5000), and they hope to have a class of 80, then they probably have to interview a few hundred. So if they want to get 500 to 1000 into an interview out of 5000, they're turning away 80 to 90%.
I'm just curious to know whether we were number 501 on the list when they accepted 500, or if we were the last one on the list of 5000.
They have a team of people sifting through the applications. Suppose there's four of them, that makes 75 applications per person per day. A lot of them are probably rejected pretty quickly, so they end up with a couple of dozens applications, which will be then discussed.
So then the process is working. Don’t get me wrong, you’re probably an amazing candidate, but so are 20 others that they have to find in the sea of 280 applicants.
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