advice

I know several companies (particularly startups) who are hiring right now, and because of the state of the market, they get tons of job applications coming in. Their small teams simply can't handle the massive influx sometimes, so they have to filter on things that may seem trivial to applicants. If you're going to apply to a company, big or small, I always tell people to actually write a cover letter, actually double-check your grammar, actually try to seem interested. I often get met with resistance, where folks say something like, "oh, but nobody actually reads a cover letter," and,…