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Job application process
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Job application process, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Submit button on the page did not work, forcing a workaround2026-09-02
- Pressing Enter to close a pop-up submitted the incomplete application form2025-07-07
- Application forms are excessively long, with many unique questions and multiple pages2024-05-04
- Applicants struggle with terrible UX; resumes given as URLs aren't accepted2019-10-11
- Official application channel is blocked, so applicants must find hidden workarounds2018-05-24
- Application forms won't let you continue without entering salary history2016-08-02
- Employers' proprietary forms force re-entering resume content by copy-pasting into fields2015-03-03
- Requiring a PDF or DOC upload to apply is annoying and bad UI2010-11-02