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Comment by Willson50 | Hacker News Reader

CricleCI has 100-250 Employees, which at 1000 applicants per 3 employees means over 30,000 interviewed applicant? Seems high.

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Seems like bullshit, to be frank. It smells like a culture that has progressively thought more highly of itself over time than it should.

Or more likely, it's just a process that was born out of necessity due to them getting more and more applicants for a limited handful of positions. How else could any company handle that situation other than making their process more and more selective?

And it would seem self-evident to me that not all of their 100-250 employees were hired at that 3/1000 rate, as number of applicants will grow over time due to increased brand recognition, increased spending on sourcing/outreach, etc.

Wouldn't be surprised if it is a newer policy, that they didn't have before. I've worked in departments that had programming tests they give applicants that their early employees never took, and freely admit they probably wouldn't have been able to complete if it was in place when they applied.

Policies tend to just get stricter and stricter over time, especially with every bad experience they have (only takes one or two usually before these people go off the deep end trying to correct for it).

Only a fraction of those 1000 get interviewed, if I am reading it correctly, and not every employee at CircleCI is an engineer.

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