[miscaccount]

you generally apply to several jobs across several companies even with referral.

based on my experience its > 5 mins most of the time.

[timmaxw]

That still doesn't seem like very much time to me. Job hunting involves hours and hours of interviews; five minutes of paperwork is negligible by comparison, right? Are people mass-spamming applications or something?

[pizzaknife]

"Are people mass-spamming applications or something?"

since the dawn of time (1970, jan1)

[xboxnolifes]

If I was getting hours and hours of interviews, an hour of paperwork would be trivial.

When 2/3 companies don't even bother sending a rejection email, I tend to not bother doing the 20 minute job applications.

[kraftman]

When you see a job and it says '3000 applicants so far' or something, this is why