[mgerullis]

2.5 minutes to apply seems very fast. What does it entail? Surely not the compilation of the entries, I need more than a minute to read a job posting in detail.

[shsachdev]

Hey I’m the OP who did the experiment - 2.5mins was from start of app to clicking submit. Time does not include me reading the job description.

[benjijay]

How do you maintain motivation to keep applying to jobs when tracking with data like this? After seeing countless posts on r/dataisbeautiful or similar where people detail number of applications > number of replies > interviews > eventual success, I tried for myself in the last hunt - and then stopped tracking it once I got to around line 55 in the spreadsheet and only 3 responses - all automated rejections

Eventually figured out it was more worth my time to just go with whatever recruiters were reaching out that week