I debated not writing this, as I planned on re-applying again, as oxide is in many ways a dream …

I mean this nicely: please don't prostrate yourself for these companies. Please have some more respect for yourself.

Hey fellow failed applicant! I had a very similar experience, except I got the automated email after two months, not three — you sound like a stronger candidate, so maybe that's why I got rejected sooner, which'd be fair enough. Still, spending about a week's worth of evenings between the suggested materials, reflecting, writing, and editing 15 pages for one job application and having zero human interaction feels uniquely degrading. I disagree with your point about that being fine. I think it's not good enough to replicate the bare minimum of what the rest of the industry does while asking for so much more from candidates . A standard custom, well researched cover letter takes an order of magnitude less effort. When it's cookie cutter rejected by someone spending a few seconds on the CV, it's at least understandable: the effort they'd spend writing a rejection (or replying back) is highe…

Your materials were absolutely read (and indeed, RFD 576 makes clear that LLMs are not a substitute for reading materials). If you have writing samples that were external links, I can't guarantee that they were clicked through though: in part because the materials themselves constitute a galactic writing sample, we may have not clicked through because we were already at a decision point before reading your external writing. As for more specific feedback, if you can DM me, I'll see if I can give you more specific feedback -- but as we explicitly indicate in RFD 3[0], we are very limited in what we can provide. As for your application getting flagged as LLM-generated: we in fact don't flag such applications (we just reject them), and it's very unlikely that we felt that yours were LLM-generated. (We really, really give applicants the benefit of the doubt on that.) All of that said: absolut…