[kelnos]

Sure, but why those 80? Hopefully there was at least one thing about each of those 80 jobs that made it worth applying to, vs. skipping it.

And if someone just mass-applied to literally every single job that was available, only got accepted to interview at one of them, and ended up across the interview table from me? Yeah, I'd think it would be a pretty basic expectation for them to do 20 minutes of research into the company or job description before the interview to find at least one or two things they like about it. Hell, those one or two things could even be learned during the interview process.

Doesn't have to be something earth-shattering. "I like working with $TECH_STACK that you use." "I like that I can take transit to your office and it's a short commute." "I enjoyed interacting with my interviewers and felt like we connected well and would work together well." It's not that hard!

Feels like a red flag if they can't even manage that.

[lomase]

If you can copy paste the answer to a question... what is the point of the question?

At the end of the day any inteligent person will look it up on internet and give you the answer you want.

You are filterijng people who can watched "How to answer this 10 interview questions" on youtube, not people with soft skills.