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I’m hiring at the moment, and the last batch of applications from the HN who’s hiring thread had about 50% LLM generated cover letters.

Instant rejection. People applying: no cover letter is better than an LLM cover letter that’s telling me “how passionate you are about $VARIABLE1, and how you’re interested in learning more about $VARIABLE2”

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I’m on the application side and I’m curious, what role do cover letters fulfill in your hiring pipeline?

P.S. Do you need an MLE?

I’m a hiring manager and I don’t care about cover letters. It really comes down to luck. I’ll have HR/recruiter spend %15 of their time to funnel applicants in competition with other hiring managers.

I try to sit down with recruiting and review linkedin and give examples of who I’m looking for.

We don’t use tooling to filter applicants. Maybe we are behind.

Your method is lightyears ahead of the LLM-fuelled crowd, and closer to actually getting you the types of people you want to have than most of the other methods I've heard.

Treating people as people, and making real connections is the future, and you're living in it before the market realizes that, so you'll do better in the long term.

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