Pick a Saturday. Open LinkedIn. Find a job. Tweak the resume. Rewrite the summary. Match the keywords. Write a cover letter. Hit submit.
35 minutes gone. One application done. 49 to go.
Two weeks later: three auto-rejections, zero callbacks, one "we've moved forward with other candidates."
This is what job hunting looks like for most people in India right now, students, freshers, devs with 5+ YOE, doesn't matter. Everyone is grinding the same broken loop and pretending it's normal.
There's a 4-minute anonymous survey running to map this out properly, how long applications actually take, where people give up, what tools they use, what they'd pay to skip the worst parts.
👉 https://forms.gle/wTULG1MRn4oPK9P26
No email, no signup. The aggregate findings will be posted back here.
If you've applied to anything in the last 30 days, your data point matters.