[MathCodeLove]

If you’re spending the time applying and submitting something then you might as well spend the extra 30 minutes or so to do it right, no?

[Aeolun]

Any time someone says ‘should only take a few hours’ they’re far underestimating the time it actually takes.

[johnnyanmac]

It's never been 30 minutes for me. Even leetcode timed exams tended to be 60-90 minutes.

recently I spent a good 10 hours making a crossword solver. Hiring freeze a few days after I turned it in. I completely get GP's mentality.

[halfcat]

Not if you’re applying to hundreds, or thousands of jobs. Unless you know someone, it’s a quantity game.

[dahart]

I’ve screened a lot of resumes and given a lot of interviews over the years, and it’s usually obvious when people are trying the scattershot approach, they just don’t match. I feel like treating it like a quantity game is unlikely to improve your odds, and tbh spamming out hundreds or thousands of applications sounds like a miserable way to spend time. You could spend that time meeting and talking to people. I’ve never applied to more than 2 jobs at once, jobs that I actually want, and never had trouble getting at least one of them (and it still takes time and effort and some coding and interviews).