[jlengrand]

As someone who was hiring recently and received 350 irrelevant generated applications within 3 hours of opening the position form people using the same techniques you described, I disagree. Ended up closing it altogether and use my local network instead. Found people in a couple weeks with much higher signal to noise ratio. I hate it because it gives less chances to people out there, but it was just too much randomness.

I'm in Europe though, it might be a difference.

[devoutsalsa]

I was recently hiring for software role in the USA. It's pretty similar. Receiving that many applications is actually great, especially if you know how to go through them all. I'm efficient at it because I've worked as a recruiter for 20 years and a developer for 11 years. Happy to expand if you want to know more.