## The short version

This is not a logo wall. It is a production extract of companies hiring with Metix: five anonymized accounts, absolute counts, and a definition sitting next to every rate. Combined they contacted 22,062 unique people. 1,720 replied (7.8%). 1,461 of those replies said they wanted to keep talking (84.9% of replies). 531 resumes arrived. 28 interviews were confirmed, all on one account, because booking shipped late and the other four had not switched it on.

Metix does not hold later interview outcomes or offers, so this page does not state a hire rate or a start rate. Open rate is a tracking pixel and can be inflated by image prefetch. Decide on reply, interest, resume, and confirmed interviews rather than on opens.

### Metrics
- **22,062**: unique people contacted  
- **7.8%**: five-case reply rate  
- **84.9%**: of replies were interested  
- **531**: resumes received

## The extract in one line of sight.

Same five accounts, scaled to 100 unique people so the drop-off is visible without the table. Interview set is 0.1 because all 28 confirmed meetings sit in one account.

- 2 resume  
- 5 interested, no resume  
- 1 replied only  
- 92 no reply

## Combined funnel

### Absolute counts, five accounts together.
Contacted is the denominator. A person on several roles is counted once. Opened is muted: decide on reply, interest, resume, and the 28 confirmed interviews.

| Metric                     | Count    | Percentage   | Steps       |
|----------------------------|----------|--------------|-------------|
| Contacted                  | 22,062   | 100%         |             |
| Opened (pixel)            | 11,823   | 53.6%        | step 53.6%  |
| Replied                    | 1,720    | 7.8%         | step 14.5%  |
| Interested                 | 1,461    | 6.6%         | step 84.9%  |
| Resume                     | 531      | 2.4%         | step 36.3%  |
| Interview set              | 28       | 0.1%         | step 5.3%   |

### Five hiring problems

Companies used Metix to hire. These five accounts show what the pipeline produced under different pressure: many roles at once, hard-to-reach product managers, no recruiter on staff, engineering outreach, and a role they ran twice. Pick the pressure that matches your week.

#### Case 01 · 7 months  
**Many roles at once**  
One hiring owner running dozens of cross-functional roles, capped by manual outreach.
- **55** roles in parallel on one owner

#### Case 02 · 6 weeks  
**Hard-to-reach PMs**  
Hiring product managers, the hardest group to reach. Strong PMs rarely look.
- **10.0%** interest rate on PM roles

#### Case 03 · 6 weeks  
**No recruiter on staff**  
No recruiter on staff. Hiring managers had no time to source, reach out, or chase resumes.
- **71** resumes, zero recruiting headcount

#### Case 04 · 2 months  
**Engineering outreach**  
Hiring engineers at volume, with outreach dying before it reached the inbox.
- **62.5%** open rate on engineering delivery

#### Case 05 · two rounds  
**A role they ran twice**  
A scarce hybrid role with almost no inbound, needing a play they could run again.
- **2** rounds, two months apart

### Exact counts

| Account                                 | Contacted | Reply   | Interest | Interest to resume |
|-----------------------------------------|-----------|---------|----------|--------------------|
| [Many roles at once](/content/customers/talent-agency/index.html)    | 16,672    | 7.3%    | 6.1%     | 33.7%              |
| [Hard-to-reach PMs](/content/customers/consumer-tech/index.html)     | 1,083     | 11.4%   | 10.0%    | 22.2%              |
| [No recruiter on staff](/content/customers/product-startup/index.html) | 1,596     | 9.5%    | 8.8%     | 50.4%              |
| [Engineering outreach](/content/customers/recruiting-services/index.html)| 1,299    | 9.2%    | 7.5%     | 45.9%              |
| [A role they ran twice](/content/customers/data-team/index.html)     | 1,412     | 8.2%    | 7.2%     | 49.5%              |
| **Five-case total**                    | **22,062** | **7.8%** | **6.6%**  | **36.3%**          |

## What we do not claim

### The limits are the point.
1. **No hires, no starts**: The chain stops at a confirmed interview. Metix does not hold later interview outcomes or offers.
2. **Open rate may be high**: Open rate depends on a tracking pixel. Use reply, interest, resume, and confirmed interviews to decide.
3. **Confirmed interviews**: All 28 confirmed interviews belong to the largest account due to booking issues.
4. **Anonymity of customers and candidates**: The five accounts are not named, ensuring anonymity.
5. **Interest is a reply, not a process**: Interested means they said they wanted to keep talking.
6. **Human-equivalent hours are an estimate**: Billed at 3 minutes to research and write one email.