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Job application portals are hot garbage too. Regularly lose your state, regularly require lots of manual, slow entry forms. Regularly have like 2 minute AJAX ca

Job application portals are hot garbage too. Regularly lose your state, regularly require lots of manual, slow entry forms. Regularly have like 2 minute AJAX calls that could fail at any moment. There's also the vaguely insulting patterns like only putting MIT/CMU/Stanford/Harvard/etc. on your college list, punctuated by "Other". I have a love/hate relationship with applications that are just an email. On one hand it doesn't box me into the requirements of the job and lets me make my own case. On the other hand I know that the company is missing out on so many excellent candidates simply because writing an email is a lot more work than filling out a form (at least for most people).

mixmastamyk 4y ago
Writing an email and attaching a resume is a small fraction of time it takes for job sites.
- hardwaregeek 4y ago
  That's true, but it is a major blocker for people. A lot of people find sending an email daunting, especially more than an impersonal form. They need to compose a message and make it personal to the company.
neilv 4y ago
> There's also the vaguely insulting patterns like only putting MIT/CMU/Stanford/Harvard/etc. on your college list, punctuated by "Other". To select where candidate went to school, and they only listed options of big-name schools and then "Other"? Maybe they were trying to make a joke, and it was inappropriate. Or maybe they were being surprisingly transparent about the brand-seeking prejudice that some employers have.