[yunwal]

It seems like in practice it’s basically used as a filter for resume spammers. If the cover letter is required then it means the person was willing to spend 20 mins of their day applying for this specific job, which is a bit too expensive for people applying to hundreds of jobs and seeing what lands

[tiim]

Seems like this is not a great filter anymore with tools like this and generally LLMs that can generate believable cover letters en masse.