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Job application websites
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 18 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Job application websites, 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 19 complaints
- Entering personal details and job history into application CRMs is tedious with a poor data entry interface2026-01-30
- No way to filter jobs by role or location; must click each dot2025-11-24
- Job details require sign-in, and clicking leads to sign-up pages instead of content2025-10-25
- Scroll animations make the site harder to use and slower2025-05-19
- Shows 0 partners and 0 jobs per country until scrolled past on mobile2025-05-10
- Job search sites have listings that are hard to filter or trust, forcing manual Google searches2024-08-01
- Auto-extracted resume details come out wrong, forcing about 20 minutes of manual correction2024-07-11
- Sign-up says email exists, but login and password reset say it doesn't2024-03-11
- Must retype resume into separate fields, and applicants get no rejection notice2022-08-11
- Select All on filters selects everything by default, forcing many clicks to pick one option2022-05-11
- Application software fails to extract resume information correctly from PDF uploads2021-09-25
- Rejects email addresses containing a plus sign, blocking app use2018-10-20
- Top buttons don't fit on one line with bold text enabled2018-10-19
- Practically impossible to unsubscribe from recruiter emails2018-05-13
- Must re-enter resume in several formats and fill long web forms2017-10-14
- Required fields block finishing; can't delete imported companies, forcing filler entries for all jobs2016-04-14
- Typed text is invisible in the form boxes and the modal shows no content2014-11-19
- Search doesn't work and browse pages load very slowly2013-12-18
- Job application process is painful and terribly usable for applicants2010-09-20