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I understand the stated feelings of indignation and resentment toward a process that was broken well before the current market conditions, but given the current conditions, isn't applying to 36 jobs and deciding to back out a bit hasty?

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I've never had to apply to more than two or three jobs to get an offer. Thankfully I haven't had to do that since before the pandemic.

If those are you priors, 36 rejected applications is going to hurt.

> Thankfully I haven't had to do that since before the pandemic.

That's why you haven't experienced this. Pre-pandemic it was the same for me as in I only ever did one or two interviews then got an offer. I changed jobs twice post-pandemic and it took many 10s of interviews before I found something. I'm not sure pandemic is the cause here (not saying you were saying this either), it's really after Elon bought Twitter, fired a bunch of people, and a whole bunch of other companies followed suit.

I think that also, pre-pandemic job postings were more likely to be real. Now they are LLM slop and so are most of the applications.

Oh right, ya. This is something my brain often refuses to process.

I suppose not if it's causing the author mental anguish as described in the post. I agree it's far too early to throw in the towel.

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