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I agree but a big problem remains. How do you make it scale for 100k applications?
by CastFX 2y ago
I agree but a big problem remains.
How do you make it scale for 100k applications?
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoFilter people out by requiring them to count the number of s's in sensational.
- pavlov 2y agoEmploying someone is renting their labor. How do you find an apartment rental in a large city with thousands of options? You can’t expect to visit them all. And you certainly can’t come up with increasingly bizarre torture tests for landlords to pass (“I might rent from you if you can answer enough trick questions about tenant law within 15 minutes”). To find the apartment, you probably sample enough of the options to form a picture of what’s available, and then make a decision knowing that you didn’t have perfect information but you had to move ahead. The same applies to hiring.
- bix6 2y agoExcept landlords have almost all the power, just like the job gatekeepers. A landlord gets to choose who rents their property so they aren’t under any obligation to answer your questions, they’ll just find a renter who doesn’t ask questions. When you have all the power it inevitably gets abused which is exactly what we’ve been seeing in rental with things like real page.
- pavlov 2y agoThat’s kind of my implicit point. Employers don’t want to think of themselves as renters. It’s offensive to their unquestioned self-image as being the ones who hold the cards and deign to interview candidates. But if you can give up on those worthless power games, you can have a hiring process that’s better for both parties.
- lordnacho 2y agoHow many jobs have you got? 1000? How about you hire the first 1000 people who seem competent, and then tell everyone else you've filled the roles?
- kasey_junk 2y agoIf you have literally hundreds of applicants and don’t have a process you are confidant provides a strong scoring function you should just randomly hire 1000.