Unfortunately, I came across a reddit post that made me realize something [1]. Anima, a YC backed company, used the Who Wants to Be Hired Thread to mass-send the same email while writing it to look personalized and did so month after month. I think this is not behavior that the community wants to condone or encourage.
Shun's email to chater00:
https://gist.github.com/assets/13973198/8698a343-f2cd-4df8-8d2c-6724f81005fb
Why would Anima do this?
Reddit user cheater00 posted their email interaction with Shun [1] that took place after the January thread. They replied to Shun but never got a response. This suggests Shun mass-emailed everybody and didn't have the bandwidth to reply to emails, much less actually look at any of the applications.
Shun also did not reply to my email response in early December. I am not "salty" for being ghosted, I now have a really nice job, but I find this behavior of doing "growth" hacking disgusting.
Shun's email to me: https://gist.github.com/assets/13973198/1ff7527b-c9d9-43eb-a394-05b9da41b270
If you look at Anima's hiring page in the email, they mention the 0.5% - 0.8% hiring rate with Pride. I don't mind them being selective, but they're wasting so many HNer's time to get this vanity metric.
https://gist.github.com/assets/13973198/3a317bdb-0354-4c1b-89c7-b47a6102cfd2
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[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/193fv5q/i_finally_figured_it_out_i_know_why_companies/?ref=share&ref_source=link