Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech company to work for in U.S

Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by spyspy on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @11:51PM (#10708963)

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!

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by Spooky23 on Thursday December 10, 2015 @12:21AM (#10709037)

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

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by prawn on Thursday December 10, 2015 @01:50AM (#10709251)

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.

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by bogomipz on Thursday December 10, 2015 @05:29PM (#10714049)

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."

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by LargeCompanies on Thursday December 10, 2015 @05:45AM (#10709968)

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.

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by alex-warren on Thursday December 10, 2015 @08:27AM (#10710475)

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

You can either reply here or email [email protected]. Thanks!

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by LargeCompanies on Thursday December 10, 2015 @03:05PM (#10713051)

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.

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by s73v3r on Thursday December 10, 2015 @02:20PM (#10712725)

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

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by adrianN on Thursday December 10, 2015 @05:09AM (#10709846)

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

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by tootie on Thursday December 10, 2015 @10:42AM (#10711144)

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

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by laumars on Thursday December 10, 2015 @07:36AM (#10710310)

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.

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Re:Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech compa... by hkmurakami on Thursday December 10, 2015 @12:27AM (#10709051)

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

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