Very different experience than mine being on a hiring committee. The CS market has been so great that candidates have a lot of choice in where they land.

We’d sift through maybe 200 applications, quickly reject most (i.e., do they have any top pubs in the area we are hiring for?). Most of them were wildly out of scope.

Pick 10 from the remaining 30 applicants that we think (a) are the best and (b) would potentially accept the offer.

We had several failed searches after many, many interviews.