[rightbyte]

It is a race to the bottom. A vicious cycle of applying and recruiting being more and more spammy. If n positions consider n candidates who all apply for all the n positions we have the end game where no choices can be made and closing a position is played by dice.

[duxup]

Yeah that's what I fear too. It's just a super thick meta game that gets denser all the time.

The 'hiring people industrial complex' is just a huge amount of work... and I'm not sure anyone is good at doing that thing, so they add more layers, more recruiters and everyone is farther from each other.