> "To keep the trend honest we computed it on a fixed panel of 594 companies that appear in our data every year, 385k reports in total, so the decline you see is the same companies getting stingier."
Isn't there a selection bias here? The average tech company that has stayed in business since 2015 presumably grew quite a bit and can now be choosier.
Most big tech companies like Google, Meta, Amazon comprise like 80 to 90% of all the tech jobs so it's still representative of the big names that I think everyone knows
Source is unclear. Self-reported by candidates? Huge bias then, since people may or may not want to say whether they got / didn't get an offer, and whether they accepted / rejected an offer, and this split may vary by company and by year very significantly.
Why would it change by year? I get it could happen by company if some companies are much more secretive than others but not sure why it would change year over year.
The article talks about how larger, well-known companies are pickier. Google was at 21% the whole time, Microsoft at mid 30s. This sounds right to me (note these are not just engineering roles).
> "To keep the trend honest we computed it on a fixed panel of 594 companies that appear in our data every year, 385k reports in total, so the decline you see is the same companies getting stingier."
Isn't there a selection bias here? The average tech company that has stayed in business since 2015 presumably grew quite a bit and can now be choosier.
Most big tech companies like Google, Meta, Amazon comprise like 80 to 90% of all the tech jobs so it's still representative of the big names that I think everyone knows
also a publisher bias - they want you to pay them for their interview prep
Source is unclear. Self-reported by candidates? Huge bias then, since people may or may not want to say whether they got / didn't get an offer, and whether they accepted / rejected an offer, and this split may vary by company and by year very significantly.
Why would it change by year? I get it could happen by company if some companies are much more secretive than others but not sure why it would change year over year.
39% seems like a lot
The article talks about how larger, well-known companies are pickier. Google was at 21% the whole time, Microsoft at mid 30s. This sounds right to me (note these are not just engineering roles).