# 12,000 Applications. 450 Interviews. Zero Hires.

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Tech industry · via r/recruitinghell

An unnamed tech company received 12,000 applications for an open role. They interviewed 450 candidates — roughly one in twenty-seven applicants made it to a conversation. After all of it, the company hired nobody. The thread on r/recruitinghell drew thousands of comments calculating the collective hours burned: conservative estimates put it north of 400 person-days of interview time alone, not counting the screening, the prep, the follow-ups that never came. The role remains unfilled.

*Source: [r/recruitinghell · viral](https://yourstory.com/ai-story/tech-firm-hiring-reddit-12000-applicants-zero-hires)*
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