Or, hear me out, that brick wall is stupid in the first place. If you're applying, you probably want the job. Just like if you're listing for applications, you're probably hiring.

There’s a saying Sachdev likes, from computer science professor Randy Pausch: The brick walls are there for a reason. Facing and surmounting hurdles can help a person discover how much they want something. But if an employer erects too many barriers, “is an applicant really going to think, ‘That brick wall is there for a reason?’ Or is the applicant going to exit out of your website and go apply somewhere else?” Sachdev says. “I think it's the latter.”

Bad candidate experiences suck and Workday is the absolute worst.

In my most recent round of job hunting about six months ago, I had a pretty decent rate of getting a screening call with a recruiter at the company. Maybe around a quarter of applications got me there.

Despite my pretty decent odds of getting a call, it was never worth applying to a company with Workday.

I don’t want to sign up to their shitty candidate portal with another set of login credentials I have to manage.

I don’t want to repeat what I wrote on my CV, because their parsing is abysmal.

I don’t want to have to use a desktop because it doesn’t because feel like working on mobile that day.

I’ve had friends refer me for positions at the companies they work at. I’ve had talent acquisition reach out on LinkedIn, who’ve been professional, friendly and knowledgeable about the role and their company. But in both cases, if they ultimately needed me to create a profile in Workday I’ve told them I’m not interested.

Given how good ATS’ have become about highlighting potential good fit candidates to recruiters - there is no reason candidates should have to input anything other than their CV, basic contact info / screening questions and a cover letter (depending on role). And it should all work smoothly using a mobile device.

"'I wanted to chop my head off' Sachev says" relatable

What a noob. It only took me just over 100 applications to get a job.

/s

Can't even be a programmer any more. Gotta be some kinda full-stack gigaengineer just to be looked at.

250...rookie numbers, gotta pump those up.

https://archive.ph/T8y86 Down with the paywall.

This only highlights a symptom of the horror. The malleability of jobs on offer make each application more deliberate and getting passed this phase, you likely have 1-2 Projects to do + a technical interview to get to an actual interview