In fact, we’ve grown by about five thousand people almost every year. To get there, we start with the 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 people who apply for jobs each year, which means we hire about 0.25 percent of the people we consider. As a point of comparison, Harvard University in 2012 extended offers to 6.1 percent of its applicants (2,076 admitted out of 34,303 applicants). It’s a very hard place to get into, but almost twenty-five times easier than getting hired by Google.
