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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by lotsofpulp on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:01PM (#25094107)
The relevant metric would be the ratio of how many got the position to how many wanted it.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by centimeter on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:21PM (#25103887)
Not really - that would inflate how impressive it is, because the bottom, say, 80% of the talent pool applies to avg 100 companies whereas the top 20% applies to avg 5 companies, so the number of talented applicants to a given company is very small. Just because you hire top 1% of people who apply to your company doesn't mean you hire top 1% of devs (even if your company is getting the best average applicants).