did you find yourself being more selective with your interview prep, or did the volume of applications mean you had to adapt your preparation strategy?

been thinking about this a lot recently. companies that make you upload a resume and then manually retype every field are telling you something about their internal processes. companies that have a clean 3 minute application are telling you something different. i've started treating the application experience as a proxy for organizational culture before i even talk to a human. the companies where i've had the best interviews have almost always had the cleanest application processes. the ones with 47 page workday forms have also been the ones with the most chaotic interview processes and the longest feedback silences. is this a real signal or am i reading too much into it