We here at Lucrative BigCo are always looking for paradigm changing talent to accelerate our dynamic synergy efforts. Please submit your resume to our jobs portal. This will require manually typing all of the info on your resume by hand into individual fields. Resume itself may only by in .txt format. We look forward to not responding for 6 to 12 months!

Don't forget the portal has no back button, and a 30 second page timeout!

And then they ask you to apply for a different, "more suitable" position and you have to re-submit your same CV through the process from scratch.

This a funny and a sad reality - come join our innovative company and solve interesting problems yet please submit your cv via jobvite/taleo or some other completely horrid job tracking system. Seems like that would be a place one could "disrupt."

Uggh was just going through this process a few hours ago .. dealing with those horrible enter your cover letter and resume systems for X big company. I even just encountered this when applying for a job thru StackOverflow.

Overall those systems frustrate me to the point of finding the hiring managers name and their email address (just google for example @xcompany.com to see how their work email address is formatted) and sending them a personal message with my resume attached. This works at times, while other times it doesnt. But, either way I dont have to deal with those horrible CV/resume data entry systems. Also, since not many are using this hack Im sure the recruiting manager saw my resume vs. it going into a black hole.

If you encountered a problem like this when applying via Stack Overflow, can you let us know which job it was?

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No issues and now I realize after writing the above your system was only two windows. Create cover letter and upload resume ... easy stuff compared to the annoying/frustrating Big corp CV/resume data entry systems.

StackOverflow careers should have a filter for "Doesn't make you go through a stupid process to submit resume/cover letter".

Essential skills: Familiarity with Microsoft Office, IBM Rational tools, and SAP.

I am willing to give up being an agile ninja to become a RUP Cataphract.

I was applying for a job via one of these portals earlier in the year. I got so frustrated at the process that I started including bug reports for the portal as part of my job application.

Needless to say, I didn't even get an interview. But I'm in a fortunate position where I can choose the company I want to work for and that business, with their buggy application process, failed to impress me.

My god I remember doing exactly this for a semiconductor capex company back in 2010.

IBM does this, or at least my department does. And they're hiring. And firing. But in different areas!

In tech, "places for grown-ups" would be a good start.

Well, not exactly what the parent describe but you have "laid-back" lucrative companies. In France it's banks, insurances, etc. You can't necessarily WFH easily but with more than 7 weeks of PTO it's more like "no work from home" when you feel like it.

They're lucrative because they have money to throw around, you don't have to work very hard because they don't like risk anyway so everything moves slowly.

The downside is that work is boring, slow-paced with old tech. Think J2EE stuck on Java 6, on the front you have to use jQuery 1.7 and they need a committee to decide to validate usage of jQuery 1.8. Sometimes you might get to write a cool prototype with recent tech but they'll just say "yeah it's cool but we can't integrate it with our legacy code", etc. Once in a while they pick a shiny new tech for their "new platform" (like Angular) but by the time their whole codebase is migrated the "new platform" is obsolete ("Angular 1 sucks I want to use Angular 2/React!")

Feels like you are talking about EuroInformation Dév...