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Saw this post by a guy on reddit where he applied to 10,000 jobs, probably by autoapplying on linkedin: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1c2

Saw this post by a guy on reddit where he applied to 10,000 jobs, probably by autoapplying on linkedin: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1c2ak3k/got_a_swe_offer_sharing_stats_below/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1c2ak3k/... I hate companies using AI for hiring, but when you have an overwhelming number of applications for a role I do understand the allure.

jprete 3y ago
If the tool is available, everyone has an incentive to use it, whether everyone else is using it or not, because the benefits of speed/volume accrue to the individual, while the drawbacks of a less-useful process and less-reliable signals are distributed among everyone.
racional 3y ago
We can also understand the temptation to just spray and pray out to thousands of companies, given the owerwhelming number of spurious autorejections, fake / expired / poorly crafted job ads, etc. Not to mention all the ghosting and other random / shitty communications these companies routinely deal out to people at various stages of the process.