IMHO all these companies are flooded with account managers, sales, customer success, BDR, when they could just let customers choose their own plans, upgrade freely, etc, instead of "schedule a call with our team"
I don't normally comment on HN but reading all the negative vibes made me want to comment.
Glad to hear you are doing great! I had to make the decision between a high paying job and a high rewarding job and choosing the second one has been a huge improvement in my life.
+1 to AWS Step Functions, in my last three companies I have built fairly complicated workflows with them and once you get used to them they are very powerful, reliable and cheap.
I just wish a little bit more monitoring on top of them but nothing you can not build by yourself.
1.- If you are really interested in the job you spend a few minutes preparing the CV and applying for it.
2.- If the company doesn't support a standard format is probably the company's problem not yours.
"Finally, all this friction discourages some candidates to apply to some positions."
Doesn't this just validate that the benefit is for recruiting firms rather than applicants?
This will only benefit recruiting firms in order to automate processes such as the one behind this project, I don't see how this would be beneficial for anyone else.