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Re:Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, ... by androng on Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:32AM (#37799232)
sorry but I do not see this as useful. I just use a spreadsheet and that is good enough. The hard part of job interviewing is learning all the useless Leetcode and preparing the stories in "STAR format" and interviewing taking up 5 hours and the indefinite period of time for replies. Not the tracking.
Re:Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, ... by thih9 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:41AM (#37799277)
To me the hard part is finding a company that doesn’t do this, in my opinion, unnecessary kind of interviewing. So a tracker with reviews sounds good in theory.
Re:Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, ... by rewmie on Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:42AM (#37799280)
This.

Tracking which job you applied for is the least of the job applicant's concerns when looking for a job. In some circumstances the first step of the job application process is even fire-and-forget, and tracking those only serves to not apply again which is a zero-effort move.

Once you start to get a process going, emails and calendars already leave a good, easy to follow paper trail, and any need you might have is easily fixed with a text file/spreadsheet.

Re:Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, ... by moneywoes on Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:47AM (#37799299)
what is your spreadsheet like?
Re:Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, ... by iwonthecase on Saturday October 07, 2023 @02:25AM (#37799464)
Same, although I appreciate the work OP's putting into this, and would find value in the aggregated statistics (especially stats about the interview funnel.)

For me, I just have a big plain text file where I keep notes and stuff about companies once they get back to me after I send off a resume. I also have two email folders (one of all job search related stuff, the other for messages about upcoming or pending calls) and iCal.