MIRI (and other EA orgs, I’d wager) would strongly second “we don’t think it’s a waste of our time to process applications. If we don’t have the staff capacity to process all the applications we receive, we can always just drop a larger fraction of applicants at each stage.”
I second the rest of Luke’s comment too. That run of applications sounds incredibly rough. The account above makes me wonder if we could be doing a better job of communicating expectations to people applying for jobs early in the process. It’s much, much easier to avoid setting misleadingly low or misleadingly high expectations when the information can be personalized and there’s an active back-and-forth, vs. in a blog post.
MIRI (and other EA orgs, I’d wager) would strongly second “we don’t think it’s a waste of our time to process applications. If we don’t have the staff capacity to process all the applications we receive, we can always just drop a larger fraction of applicants at each stage.”
I second the rest of Luke’s comment too. That run of applications sounds incredibly rough. The account above makes me wonder if we could be doing a better job of communicating expectations to people applying for jobs early in the process. It’s much, much easier to avoid setting misleadingly low or misleadingly high expectations when the information can be personalized and there’s an active back-and-forth, vs. in a blog post.