Sounds like you found an effective strategy to weed out ineffective companies (or at least those w/ HR departments putting unnecessary requirements on people they want). It may not seem representative of the entire company, but like many things, first impressions are often accurate.
Or perhaps it's the companies weeding out ineffective candidates that cannot adapt and figure out how to provide a very common format such as a Word doc.
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Sounds like you found an effective strategy to weed out ineffective companies (or at least those w/ HR departments putting unnecessary requirements on people they want). It may not seem representative of the entire company, but like many things, first impressions are often accurate.
Or perhaps it's the companies weeding out ineffective candidates that cannot adapt and figure out how to provide a very common format such as a Word doc.
Exactly. In an equal-leverage job market, the unnecessary requirement makers and the capitulators deserve each other.