I think the traits we are looking for in a senior hire are pretty complex and fairly rare even in the EA movement, so it’s hard to take a strong counterexample without me interviewing someone to see if they would be a good fit.
It would be interesting for my next senior hire to explicitly put a higher range (e.g. 50-100k) and see if the application pool changes dramatically. My expectation is we would get more total applications but the same number from the category we would considering hiring in the end (0-2 candidates).
I think the traits we are looking for in a senior hire are pretty complex and fairly rare even in the EA movement, so it’s hard to take a strong counterexample without me interviewing someone to see if they would be a good fit.
It would be interesting for my next senior hire to explicitly put a higher range (e.g. 50-100k) and see if the application pool changes dramatically. My expectation is we would get more total applications but the same number from the category we would considering hiring in the end (0-2 candidates).