Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Online job applications
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2016–2022), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Online job applications, 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 9 complaints
- Job seekers must click Apply many times, making applying a tedious, low-yield process2022-11-14
- Submit button errors out and going back erases all previously entered info2022-10-26
- Must re-enter same data already uploaded or previously entered2022-10-26
- Dropdown-heavy form doesn't work with keyboard, with many required fields2022-10-26
- Long forms re-enter CV data piecemeal instead of importing it, asking excessive irrelevant information2022-10-26
- Resume PDF parsing is wrong and correcting parsed data is frustrating2022-10-26
- Address line limited to 20 characters, too short to enter address2018-07-01
- Resume parsing auto-fills fields that don't let applicants say what they want2016-02-17
- Application sites require upwards of 30 minutes of manual data entry2016-01-29