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On Epic's side at least, they are actually overloaded with engineers/applicants now, to the point that they removed their referral incentives because they have more people applying than they can deal with. They're perfectly happy if they lose a few percent of applicants if they avoid some false positive hires.

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It's still a process that loses the best applicants. The fact that they don't realise this or don't care, doesn't make a good public impression.

>they removed their referral incentives because they have more people applying than they can deal with

That's a surprising reaction. The big four (five?) all have referral bonuses despite being beyond flooded with applications, specifically to avoid false positives - they assume that their current employees are more likely to know other people they want to hire.

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