[mrgordon]

From my experience at startups, I feel like causality is backwards here. We get very few leads through our website compared to referrals and recruiters, so naturally most of our hires don't come through cold website leads. Its not like we get thousands of website resume submissions that we then just ignore. I do think referrals (including from a good recruiter) are likely to have a higher quality since they are pre-vetted a bit, but I'm more than happy to hire direct and save $20,000+ in recruiter fees.