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CFD — Hiring Requisition Pipeline

Eight months of open engineering requisitions from approval to filled, computing time-to-fill via Little's Law and exposing the interview loop as the stage whose queue never stops growing.

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Talent acquisition — open requisitions050100150cumulative reqsInterviewing growingOffer out growing2025-01-012025-02-012025-03-012025-04-012025-05-012025-06-012025-07-012025-08-01Approved (queue)SourcingInterviewingOffer out (queue)FilledWIP31 reqscommitted at SourcingTHROUGHPUT2.1 / week0.3 reqs/dayCYCLE TIME ≈104.3 daysLittle's Law: WIP ÷ throughputLEAD TIME ≈134.6 daysall 40 reqs in systemFLOW EFFICIENCY77%24 active · 7 waitingDELIVERY TREND↑ 20%accelerating · 65 doneStageTypeWIP (reqs)LimitTime (days)Approvedwaiting9—30.3Sourcingactive11—37Interviewingactive13—43.7Offer outwaiting7—23.6Filleddone65——!WIP growth: Interviewing widened for 7 straight periods (2025-01-01 → 2025-08-01, +8 reqs)!Queue growth: Offer out widened for 4 straight periods (2025-01-01 → 2025-05-01, +4 reqs)!Arrivals outran deliveries by 18 reqs across the window

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title "Talent acquisition — open requisitions"
unit reqs
stages: Approved*, Sourcing, Interviewing, Offer out*, Filled
commit Sourcing

# Requisitions, not candidates: every req eventually reaches Filled or is
# closed, so the conservation a CFD assumes actually holds.
2025-01-01 |  24, 18, 10,  5,  2
2025-02-01 |  34, 28, 20, 13,  9
2025-03-01 |  45, 39, 30, 22, 17
2025-04-01 |  57, 50, 41, 32, 26
2025-05-01 |  70, 62, 52, 42, 35
2025-06-01 |  82, 74, 63, 52, 45
2025-07-01 |  93, 85, 74, 62, 55
2025-08-01 | 105, 96, 85, 72, 65