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Confused by these numbers:

Software engineers Search completed: less than a minute ago • 1792 candidates analyzed • stopped after 53 matches found

We have analyzed 84 candidates and found 31 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 1 minute ago and took 30 seconds to complete.

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That's a bug. We'll take a look - thanks.

Long story short is that some of this analysis is async. We do a lot of parallelization to make it fast. But, we limit results for free searches to keep costs low. But, sometimes extra matches keep getting found after we try to stop free searches.

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