Just like you wouldn't make it hard to pay for your product, I think making it hard to apply for jobs at your company is a bad move. Because most people are ap

Just like you wouldn't make it hard to pay for your product, I think making it hard to apply for jobs at your company is a bad move. Because most people are applying to a 'better' job than the one they have now (Cooler? More money? More responsibility?), they know that most initial applications will come to nothing. If you believe your CV will get a reply 1/5th of the time, spending more than the 5 minutes it takes to send over a slightly customized CV is foolish. There are a lot of other people that don't require this much effort. Time is better spent writing to them. This is going to get plenty of replies, because it's on Hacker News, but if it was getting the traffic more organically (i.e. if this was widespread), I'm not sure it would get a single one. Yeah sure, for the applicant he wants, this is solved with, notepad, curl, 10 minutes, but it's still more effort than emailing it to his rival.