If you really want a job at my company, and the level at which you decide "this isn't worth my time" is 2 minutes to enter your details then you weren't a good fit in the first place. There are genuine reasons to turn down stupid requests in interview (ridiculous coding tests) but "Re-enter all your details into this form" isn't that hard, and if you really think you want the job then it's a very small price to pay. What is does is force unqualified candidates to distill their lack of qualifications. So for the hiring company it let's them cut out that bottom 50% of applications (not candidates, applications) that are just absurd. If you standardize it all you're doing is giving the mass-application candidates a cheat sheet.
Looks like your company praises doing useless, repetitive tasks. I’m pretty sure I do not want to apply there. Maybe if it was somewhere that actually prioritizes efficiency and meaningful work, you’d have a better way to do it.
Typing the same details a dozen times every time you change jobs is inefficient. That’s low end, people who aren’t engineers have to apply to way more than that.
The thing is that it's nowhere close to 2 minutes. Heck, it's optimistic even if you're straight out of college or if you're explicitly asking for just the most recent employment; but if your system is asking for everything and there's a few decades of data to enter in a weird form, you'd be lucky to do it in half an hour.
