Why is it that in order to apply for a job as a software engineer I am forced to sign up to a company's online recruitment portal. Where I then upload my CV, only to find out in the next step I have to fill out little boxes with my relevant experience. Then fill out more boxes with arbitrary questions, completely unrelated to the job I am applying for.<p>I swear I abandon the recruitment page as soon as I see the "workday" logo pop up, or I am redirected to a "careers portal". Just give me an email address to send my info to.<p>I have spent time building up my portfolio and CV over the last decade. It shows all my experience and relevant skills, in a way that represents me as a developer.<p>Yet when I eventually turn up to an interview, after hearing back 6 weeks later. The people conducting it have never been sent my portfolio site or relevant work. And I will then be asked some "right or wrong answer" tech questions. Which any dev would just google at the time and do not give an indication of skill, but rather memory retention...<p>I will then get an email saying that I do not have the relevant experience in a technology I have actually contributed to and worked with for 10 years.<p>This is a rant, but really the recruitment process sucks, and interviews are pot luck.
I like to think of them as "stand up comedy gigs". You go, you try and kill it in the live coding set and sometimes you do, but sometimes you bomb. It's a numbers game. Get up on stage more and more and eventually you'll kill and they'll make you an offer that day! But it's VERY repetitive. Just like comics are sick to death of their own jokes they'd told 1000 times, boy I do not like to hear my self speak sometimes.
Applying cold to jobs sucks, and need only be done by people new to the industry. Since you've been working several years, ask people you've worked with that are now at other companies for warm intros to their managers. And network outwards from there, to friends of friends.
perhaps because we are dreamers looking for truth in a resource like this, but the employer has a business to run and has too limited a resource for a dreamer.