The software between you and the job.

Workday, iCIMS, Taleo, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, LinkedIn Easy Apply. Nobody chooses them and everybody has to use them. Ranked worst first by the people who did.

17 people have ranked so far

1WorkdayAn account for every employer1Upload your resume, then re-enter your work history1Autofill, then retype it anyway16 ranked

2iCIMSUpload your resume, then re-enter your work historySixty clicks to applyStatus that never updates11 ranked

3TaleoLogged out after 30 minutesDon't use the back buttonPassword rules from 2004Re-enter work history after resume upload9 ranked

4LinkedIn Easy ApplyKnockout questionEasy to send and ignore5 ranked

5GreenhouseNo status unless they turn it onDemographic questions twice4 ranked

6Lever+ Say what it did4 ranked

7AshbyNo portal, only emailBlocked from reapplying4 ranked

How the order is produced

Each person orders only the platforms they actually used, worst first. That matters: a raw count of complaints would put the biggest platform on top every time, because more employers put more people through it.

The order is the share of a platform’s own users who put it in their worst two. A platform used by nine people and named by eight of them ranks above one used by ninety and named by forty.

It rests on 17 rankings. Below 15 no order is shown at all, because a handful of ballots is not a finding.

The short phrases under each platform are things people reported, plus a starting set drawn from vendor changelogs and employer applicant-FAQ pages. A figure beside a phrase is how many people independently reported it. If something here is wrong about your product, write to hello@stilllooking.co and it will be corrected.

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