In 2010, we ran 300,000 rejected software engineer resumes through this system, revisited 10,000 applications, and hired 150 people. This may seem like a lot of work to get 150 hires, but a yield of 1.5 percent is six times better than our overall hiring yield of 0.25 percent. We don’t just look at the candidate side of hiring. Interviewers also receive feedback on their own personal ability to predict whether someone should be hired. Every interviewer sees a record of the interview scores they have given in the past and whether those people were hired or not.
