> Speaking from my own experience, my team is hiring several senior SREs, and we're not seeing a flood of qualified candidates. We get a flood of resumes, but the signal to noise ratio is low. The candidates' CVs claim the requisite qualifications, but when we actually evaluate the candidates for role fit, we are finding that their actual skills aren't those we need for success in these roles.
This also seems like a bad faith comparison. My team is hiring several senior SREs and we received ~8000 applications for all of the postings combined. Of course the signal/noise is low when you have that many applications to filter through. The takeaway isn’t “the US doesn’t have enough qualified candidates”, it’s “we need a better way to sift through these candidates to find the right ones”
This also seems like a bad faith comparison. My team is hiring several senior SREs and we received ~8000 applications for all of the postings combined. Of course the signal/noise is low when you have that many applications to filter through. The takeaway isn’t “the US doesn’t have enough qualified candidates”, it’s “we need a better way to sift through these candidates to find the right ones”