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".