Jeremy

Feb 22, 2017

How many applications do you receive for a job opening? And how many do you interview and have them working on a project? Can you share some kind of projects you have them doing before hiring them officially?

Is there anything a candidate can do to blow up a possible offer after your initial screening of applications?

DH

David Heinemeier Hansson

Feb 22, 2017

I think we usually get between 100 and 300 applications. Then we usually cut that down to 10-20 candidates that we'll talk with on the phone. Then we usually have 3-5 finalists where we may give them a one week paid trial project or we may just decide based on the work product provided.

Candidates can surely be dropped at every step. Either the work product isn't strong enough or they're not good writers or they're just not someone the people interviewing would like to work with.

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