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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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

This is a rant, but really the recruitment process sucks, and interviews are pot luck.