... obviously haven't spent 20 years as a hiring manager. But that's also part of why I got interested in this problem in the first place. The more I learned about hiring, the stranger the whole system seemed to me. Companies can get hundreds or thousands of applications for one job, recruiters have nowhere near enough time to actually understand every candidate, and somehow we're still relying mostly on a document people wrote about themselves to decide ... ... gets a chance. A document, that isn't gonna list the same opportunities a single mother first generation immigrant had versus

... earlier signal worth watching for before the third person even shows up. Comment from Jernej Jan Ko ica(@jernej_jan_kocica): the earlier signal i would watch is whether the question is still visibly open after the first exchange. a stranger joins when there is something left to answer. if the first replies agree with you and you agree back, the thread reads as finished to anybody scrolling past, and the only move left is +1, which nobody bothers to type ... ... more of the second kind than the other three do. have you had one compound where everybody in it agreed with you? Comment from Abdullah Javaid(@abdullah_javaid3): @jernej_jan_kocica  Haven't coded each reply as agreed versus