This exactly chimes with my experience. I’ve been hiring for 10 years now, and the range in application volume has been 10-200 for a position.
In particular, I’ve been using an opt-in for feedback for years and my experience has also been that this is requested by a very low volume of people (I’d actually guess at 5% for early rejections, rising to 75% if they did an interview, at which point most people seem to want feedback).
For what it’s worth, I think this is a moral issue as well—we have a duty to the community to try to give useful feedback when we can; and to treat people with kindness.
I try to take it in good faith when people say “I’m too busy to give feedback” but I feel that this is often not literally true; and in the rare cases where it is (maybe someone running one of the big ‘legacy’ EA organisations and getting hundreds of applicants per position), the solutions in other comments are viable.
This exactly chimes with my experience. I’ve been hiring for 10 years now, and the range in application volume has been 10-200 for a position.
In particular, I’ve been using an opt-in for feedback for years and my experience has also been that this is requested by a very low volume of people (I’d actually guess at 5% for early rejections, rising to 75% if they did an interview, at which point most people seem to want feedback).
For what it’s worth, I think this is a moral issue as well—we have a duty to the community to try to give useful feedback when we can; and to treat people with kindness.
I try to take it in good faith when people say “I’m too busy to give feedback” but I feel that this is often not literally true; and in the rare cases where it is (maybe someone running one of the big ‘legacy’ EA organisations and getting hundreds of applicants per position), the solutions in other comments are viable.