I was scrolling through LinkedIn when I saw this Sankey of a hackathon organizer trying to get a SWE role:An obviously talented and hard-working student, who was accepted by Microsoft (literally the biggest tech company ever), got rejected by 97% of the internships/opportunities they applied to. Perhaps applications follow the 100 calls:10 pick-ups:1 sale ratio of marketing. The fact that people apply to so many jobs, implies that they think they need to. This strategy of shooting at many tar...