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Notes on first‑round hiring

Data-driven takes on screening, throughput, and consistency. What the evidence supports, and what it doesn't.

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The first-round screening problem we keep misdiagnosing

Everyone believes their screen misses great people. We tried to prove it with data and couldn't, because the funnel structurally can't show it. Here's what the evidence does prove, and the one rate almost no one measures.

21 June 2026 · 6 min read · Read →