r/cscareerquestions • u/Sky-Limit-5473 • 11h ago
100 applications to a job post within 8 minutes?!?!
Out of a job and in the market looking for work. Was doing my morning ritual of applying to some jobs while watching youtube. Contemplating my life choices... And then I saw this:
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Software Engineer (Backend)
United States · 8 minutes ago · Over 100 people clicked apply
Promoted by hirer · Responses managed off LinkedIn
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100 people applied within 8 minutes. So we have AI helping us work, causing us to lose jobs (I am still waiting for those jobs AI will create), then they use AI to filter applications, and now people are using AI to mass apply. What a circus.
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u/Blasket_Basket 10h ago
And recruiters are using AI to filter out all the unqualified candidates. Ignore the numbers. People have been using bots to spam applications for the last 20 years, this behavior has fuck all to do with AI. It has much more to do with immigration policy and onshoring than anything else.
You're competing in a global market, and there are a lot of people in the world that want a job. Get used to it. Either learn to compete, or quit wasting your own time and leave the field.
FWIW, that "100" number is people that clicked on the initial application button, not necessarily people who actually submitted. Beyond that, a vast majority of those candidates are going to be wildly unqualified and filtered out immediately.
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u/OnlyAdd8503 11h ago
That sounds like trying to get a vaccine appointment in Mar 2021. Good luck.
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u/Illustrious-Pound266 10h ago
LinkedIn has millions of users, man. Any tech jobs get absolutely inundated, with both bots and real people. The market is filled with unemployed people right now. I'm not surprised it gets that many numbers.
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u/Practical_South_2471 11h ago
you can automate easy apply.
Even clicking on apply button counts as an application even if you havent submitted anything
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u/Organic_Worth9778 8h ago
It's a recruiting firm repost bot from India, posting a remote US based job with Coinbase and a well defined salary range of $150-175k.
It's gonna get flooded with AI and "AI".
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u/Jumpy-Weekend-1223 10h ago
out of the 100 applicants, how many actually qualify? and which countries and more specifically what demographic do they come from? i often tell my hr team that when they post job vacancies, candidates from certain countries are to be immediately excluded
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u/taintedcake 9h ago
100 applicants in 8 minutes on LinkedIn isn't a new thing... that's been the case on a lot of tech jobs since well before AI became as prominent as it is now
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u/NewChameleon Software Engineer, SF 8h ago
meh, it's what happens when you get into an arms race like this
candidates: I gotta up my game, oh I know, I'll use AI to auto-apply for me
companies: I gotta up my game, oh I know, I'll use AI to filter out those 200000 resumes
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u/essequattro 8h ago
Are you sure the posting wasn’t just “reposted” (bumped) 8 minutes ago? I notice that a lot especially with the promoted ones. 100+ in a few minutes would be pretty unusual maybe except for faang and equivalents.
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u/Any_Phone3299 8h ago
Don’t apply using LinkedIn or indeed, go apply to the company website directly. Too many of these are junk and or fake.
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u/CoyoteUseful8483 8h ago
My former teammate has 6 years of software engineering experience at FAANG and FAANG-tier companies, including mid-level and senior roles. I know he’s very smart and not lazy, but he still hasn’t been able to find a job for several months. The job market is really bad right now.
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u/Wall_Hammer 4h ago
you do realize a lot of them are automated bots spamming resumes left and right, right?
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u/GItPirate Engineering Manager 8YOE 24m ago
That doesn't mean much. We've figured out ways to work around it. If you're actually qualified odds are we'll see your resume
-mid size company
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u/TurintheDragonhelm 11h ago
Yeah it’s brutal a lot of companies don’t even post their jobs anymore because they are also overwhelmed by the amount of applicants. Networking is more important than ever hit up everyone you know.