I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took

- On average, it took a bit over two and a half minutes (162 seconds) to apply to a job.

- If company size doubles, the application time increases by 5%. If company size increases by a factor of 10, then the app time increases by 20%.

- Being a government company is the single largest determinant of a long application, followed closely by aerospace and consulting firms.

- The longest application time went to the United States Postal Service (10 minutes and 12 seconds).

- On the other hand, It took me just 17 seconds to apply to Renaissance Technologies.

- Older ATS like Workday and Taleo make job applications as much as 128% longer.

I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
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Workday is such junk from a user facing perspective. It’s a huge pain to index content from. I have to omit a bunch of big semiconductor companies from my job site because it’s fucking impossible to get job data out of Workday.

If you work in talent at either NXP or Qualcomm, please God read this essay. You are actively harming your own recruiting prospects by using Workday!

I don’t have this problem at all with the more modern ATS’es - Lever, Greenhouse, and Workable all provide nice, easy to consume APIs for this.