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by fabian_shipamax 1416 days ago
If you talk about YC work at a startup, I can tell you that when hiring from that site that 99% of applicants didn't read our job description and missed to realise that they are not qualified. This leads to candidates not getting a response.
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At least for software engineering, your job ads aren't very specific. E.g. this one:

https://angel.co/company/shipamax/jobs/2198087-backend-devel...

There are a lot of compsci grads who have three years of experience as software engineers and some experience with Javascript or Typescript. If you're looking to get fewer unsuitable applications, I'd recommend fleshing the JD out a bit. As it stands probably the majority of software engineers in London are 'qualified' according to the criteria in the ad.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I hope I was not doing that but it is always possible.