The £132,000 bad hire figure gets cited a lot. But it only accounts for one person - the one who got the job. What about everyone else in the pipeline? For scaling businesses hiring at pace without a proper system, candidate experience is the employer brand problem that never arrives as an invoice. It just makes the next hire a little harder, and the one after that harder still. This article looks at where the damage actually goes, why it gets worse during a growth phase, and what fixing it looks like in practice.