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I'm a recruiter at GiveWell. Before that I taught math at a charter high school in Memphis. I learned about EA in 2014 when I stumbled on Scott Alexander's blog.
Any writing on this account is personal and not endorsed by my employer (the only exception is if I answer questions on GiveWell's job posts). If you'd like to see more of my personal writing, check out my Substack blog, Varia.
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Hi Marna, your questions (and sorry for the delay on this; I didn't see your post until today):
- In the last two years, for junior hiring rounds across our teams, we've...
- received in the range of thousands of applications per round. Application volume is usually somewhat lower for more senior roles.
- made 3 to 5 hires per round. This isn't always apparent from our people page because new junior hires sometimes take on different job titles at the beginning of their employment or shortly thereafter.
- We last hired Research Analysts in 2022, but the job duties and team placement of that role were different than the role of the same name advertised above. We last opened a Content Editor hiring round (the most similar role to this one) in 2023. From that round we made 4 hires, all of whom are on our staff today.
- We don't plan to share information about passthrough rates for each stage of the hiring process, except to say that passthrough rates generally increase with each stage.
Hi Chinwe, yes! From the JD:
We may employ staff internationally on a case-by-case basis. We require that employees either work in time zones shared by the continental U.S. or, if working outside those time zones, be willing to work hours that are compatible with regular meetings scheduled around U.S. time zones.
We currently have many non-US employees, and we're happy to bring on more.
Agree with the above—fwiw I and hiring managers I work with have solicited applications and hired candidates based on seeing their personal writing here and elsewhere. That's definitely not a sure-fire path to getting hired and you shouldn't Goodhart it, but if you have the urge to write and are holding yourself back for any reason, I'd endorse you pushing through it. As @Mjreard notes, this sort of writing is a hard-to-fake signal of intellectual investment and productivity, and hiring managers are hungry for such signal.