[overcast]

It's not realistic that the vast majority of people can expected to be hired, or move to those places, let alone achieve those salary levels. I would be amazed if even 1% of applicants actually got hired. You have 5x greater chance of being accepted at Stanford. There is a tremendous bias on HN, because those people that have, frequent here.

[postsantum]

"Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%"

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/27/news-58/

[overcast]

They might not be hiring the top 1%, but they are only hiring 1% of the people who apply.