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Re:Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job application... by danaris on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @06:17PM (#37772573)
a) In most cases? Hell no. I read the basics of what the company is/does, and decide from that if they look worth applying to. I'm not looking for a spouse, I'm looking for a paycheck. Now, if I actually hear back from the company, then I'll do research to get a more in-depth feel for the company's culture and history.

b) How on earth do you expect me to be able to "research a company" to be able to tell whether they're genuinely going to read a cover letter and care what it says? The only way I can think to find that out is to be able to talk to people who've recently been hired there, and fuck cold-emailing random people at a company you're trying to apply to; I guarantee some significant percentage of companies would find that super creepy and shitcan your résumé out of hand.

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Re:Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job application... by JohnFen on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:15AM (#37779663)
> How on earth do you expect me to be able to "research a company" to be able to tell whether they're genuinely going to read a cover letter and care what it says?

I don't. That's not what I was talking about when researching a company. You can't (usually) know if a cover letter will be read or valued. But it might be, so it seems worth doing anyway just to gain that possible edge.

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Re:Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job application... by quickthrower2 on Friday October 06, 2023 @03:36AM (#37788119)
Most people probably do the intelligent thing based on probability, outcome and game theory. Sometimes you want to do a lot of legwork to apply. For example a web dev job paying $500k because AI goldrush dollarz (cough anthropic) and othertimes you need a job to tide you over and there is yet another business focusses SaaS hiring devs with cliche perks and so yeah I mean at least be polite and use GPT4.
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