Getting to the Product Manager interview stage | Glenn Gillen

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2021-06-23 18:00:03

That's how many applicant CVs we screened last year for a Product Manager role I had open. 814. Plus the countless number of LinkedIn profiles we proactively screened ourselves, with approximately 50 or so people we reached out to asking them to apply. 64 applicants had a phone screen with our recruiter or the hiring manager (that's me!). 10 made it through to a full interview loop and case study with the broader team. 1 offer went out. 1 offer was accepted.

I wish a submitted CV was a fair and objective representation of somebody's experience and their potential. That isn't the case though. And so we have this imperfect process filled with potential bias made worse by incomplete information. I'd love to be able to speak to each and every applicant to try give them the best opportunity possible to let themselves shine. That's not going to happen with 814 applicants though. There's going to be some sort of filtering required to distill it down to a number we can manage. That might mean we miss out on someone great, and that makes me sad.

I'm currently Director of Product @ HashiCorp, and we're hiring! Including multiple roles at various levels (i.e., junior through to senior) across