I'm not a badass, I am just laying out a baseline: I know what I'm talking about. That's all. And no, many companies don't have 1k applicants that are qualified. They have 5000 applicants in the SF area, 4900 of them are unqualified, 80 who are qualified can't write English, of the remaining 20 candidates only 8 are still on the market once you reach them, 4 pass your filters, 2 accept a job offer, and only 1 of them shows up.

That's far more realistic. In today's world, we're not looking for jobs, jobs are looking for us. Desperately so.