Ask HN: How do recruiters deal with tons of applicants from public job boards? I'd estimate that there would be no less than 1000 applications from a single job post from public job listings. How do recruiters sort out those applications? What is the initial criteria to filter out the low quality applications? |
There was text in the source saying: "Congratulations, you just passed the first step. Here's the test". The test for the real job post page was to decode the URL which was in Morse. That was cool.
I received a call from the CTO offering me the job. I said the test was really cool but I had found a job in the meantime. He said there weren't that many applicants.
The job I ended up taking: I was sent a dataset in a `.tar.gz` archive. They scored points just with that.
Small "frictions" like that would nudge most people who would not be happy at your company to do other things. They're small enough that people you would be interested in wouldn't even notice.
One other company (it was an online game I liked but didn't have time to play, so I wanted to write code to play on my behalf and I'd just enjoy the game by proxy. They put their call to apply in their HTTP response headers).
Another asked to make a POST with your email as body and the position tittle encoded a in base64 as an auth token.
It was pretty cool and I applied mostly because I thought a company like that would be a cool place to work at!
But I am wondering how big companies that advertise job posts in popular job boards filter through all those applications?