I noticed with linkedin premium - when you view a job listing it tells you how many other people have applied akready, and what number of them have masters, bachelors, phd, director level, etc.
in this day, it should be a law that all the boards must post this info clearly - just to save us all a lot of time.
The amount of time I have spent putting info together for some job listings and wondered how in the heck they found someone else with the same experience and knowledge.. and to think, there may have been 1500 that applied before hand and literally none of that matters.
They have the data, they should have to post it.
How do you vet mid level and entry developers? I know that sounds like a dumb question. But I only expect a mid level developer especially enterprise developers to turn well defined requirements into code. The bar is especially low in the age of AI. One is basically interchangeable for another. I have only interviewed senior level developers - ie people who I expect to operate on a higher level of scope, impact and ambiguity.
Those are easy to filter out via a few behavioral questions.
Surely you will not manage to hire one of the top 20 developers matching any given criterion unless you are paying too 1% compensation. (I made this number up.)
One of the criteria somehow is “will show up for work and not ghost us”.
No affiliation but they talked with me long time ago. They take upon themselves to perform the first screening… looks like something smaller startups could take advantage of. I am not sure how good they are.