... obviously haven't spent 20 years as a hiring manager. But that's also part of why I got interested in this problem in the first place. The more I learned about hiring, the stranger the whole system seemed to me. Companies can get hundreds or thousands of applications for one job, recruiters have nowhere near enough time to actually understand every candidate, and somehow we're still relying mostly on a document people wrote about themselves to decide ... ... gets a chance. A document, that isn't gonna list the same opportunities a single mother first generation immigrant had versus

... anyone else tracks this specifically, or if there is an earlier signal worth watching for before the third person even shows up. Comment from Abdullah Javaid(@abdullah_javaid3): @jernej_jan_kocica  Haven't coded each reply as agreed versus pushed back specifically, so this is memory, not an audit. The 9 view thread was mostly me agreeing with whatever came in. The 221 one had at least one spot where I admitted not controlling for a variable someone raised ... ... agreement. Comment from Anastasiia(@alieksia): My version is that the question has to be answerable with a fact rather than an opinion. An opinion question collects agreement, and agreement is what closes a thread. I joined one as a stranger