One of the major reasons why applying for jobs sucks so much is that companies are flooded with more garbage applications than they can process.
So hurray for the tragedy of the commons, I guess. It was nice knowing everyone.
On a personal level, I consider the practice espoused by this article of flooding the world with automated messages without care for how it impacts anyone else to be narcissistic and morally reprehensible, not admirable, but whatever floats a person's boat.
Yep, the glee of the author reminds me of my younger days when I had a lot of edgy, but truly shitty development ideas. Luckily I never saw them through and can't be embarrassed by them today.
This all makes me glad I am not actively looking for a new position. I always keep an eye on the job market though - I've noticed anecdotally the amount of applicants on any LinkedIn position have really amplified the last couple years. I knew the LLM driven application process was coming, but it doesn't make it suck any less.
Exactly. It’s funny someone would be so self-unaware as to brag about doing this in a blog post
It doesn’t matter though. The way to get actual good jobs is to be poached. And to get poached, you need to build real projects of your own that get peoples’ attention. Resume spamming is for the plebs.
So hurray for the tragedy of the commons, I guess. It was nice knowing everyone.
On a personal level, I consider the practice espoused by this article of flooding the world with automated messages without care for how it impacts anyone else to be narcissistic and morally reprehensible, not admirable, but whatever floats a person's boat.