Ask HN: Why don't employers post an applicant-to-job ratio?
I think it&#x27;s mostly because the statistics don&#x27;t tell the story. I&#x27;ve been on the hiring side for 3 companies. We&#x27;d take the first non-idiotic person who applies.<p>If you&#x27;re the kind of person to be a friend, you&#x27;d likely be hired. If you&#x27;re the kind of stranger looking for a job, you&#x27;d be unlikely to be hired. If you&#x27;re the kind of person to hang out on HN or some Facebook&#x2F;Slack meme groups, we couldn&#x27;t afford your salary.<p>Out of that, it would be roughly 90% of applicants who don&#x27;t qualify, 5% who we can&#x27;t afford, and somewhere in between which we just settle for. Many new graduates can&#x27;t do FizzBuzz, many people who apply for a senior position can&#x27;t reverse a linked list.