> A non-technical person (yeah yeah, I don't believe for a second she was ever an engineer, that's vanity talking) is eliminating %90 of the applicants and they think that's a "high bar"? No. That's randomness.
I wish more people could wrap their heads around this. Her process could be rolling a D10 for every CV she receives, then lighting the CV on fire unless it passes the saving throw, and she'd still be able to say "we ended up interviewing roughly 1 in 10 people that applied". It says absolutely nothing about the effectiveness of her methods.
I've been involved in hiring in the past, and discussed this issue with people having this mindset, even using this exact example with the D10, but I don't think I've ever gotten through. Some people will insist on believing that any highly selective screening process is automatically good, without any further introspection.
I just divide the pile in two and throw half the resumes I get in the trash. Why would I want to hire unlucky people? They could make the whole company unlucky. Plus, it makes our hiring process more selective.
In seriousness though, my hypothesis is that they are at least certain that they are not making the candidate pool any worse by their screening, i.e. they are not selecting for unqualified candidates. Even if their process is barely better than 50%+1, they are at least certain it is not worse than 50%, and consider that good enough. If they took 1000 candidates, 100 of which were qualified for the position, and whittled that down to 100 candidates, 11 of which were qualified for the position, they'd honestly consider that a win.
I wish more people could wrap their heads around this. Her process could be rolling a D10 for every CV she receives, then lighting the CV on fire unless it passes the saving throw, and she'd still be able to say "we ended up interviewing roughly 1 in 10 people that applied". It says absolutely nothing about the effectiveness of her methods.
I've been involved in hiring in the past, and discussed this issue with people having this mindset, even using this exact example with the D10, but I don't think I've ever gotten through. Some people will insist on believing that any highly selective screening process is automatically good, without any further introspection.