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July 19, 2025 Score: 14 Rep: 5,439 Quality: Expert Completeness: 20%

Companies can put in any limits they want in order to see if candidates are willing to follow those limits. I applied once for a job where the application had to be hand delivered by a certain time and day. When I showed up, the place was locked, and the application had to be slid under the door. BTW, I did get the job.

Considering how fast an email address can get bombarded with AI generated resumes and applications, I suspect that the company wants to get a different group of applications. It may be easier to select a real human being from snail mailed applications. It will also limit the number of overseas / out of state applications.

July 19, 2025 Score: 3 Rep: 76,798 Quality: Medium Completeness: 30%

My question is whether it's reasonable to suspect they would discriminate against outsiders, or to suggest other plausible reasons why the company would impose such a policy.

If they don't want to get resumes/applications from non-employees for a position there is no legal requirement to advertise the position to people outside the company. They can always promote somebody.

What sometimes happens is that the company requires all/most positions to be advertised to non-employees as well as current employees, but the hiring manager wants to select a specific person. They need to reduce the number of other applicants. They will do this by writing a highly specific set of requirements, or have the application window open for a very short period of time. The requirement to apply by mail will make it easy to claim that they didn't read your application before they picked the people to interview.

The other possibility is that they are stuck in the past.

The risk to you is the time it takes to apply and mail the letter, plus the cost of the stamp. But because you should keep applying until you get a job, the built in time delay before the next step shouldn't be an issue. You will probably read dozens of job posting before your letter arrives.

July 21, 2025 Score: -1 Rep: 4,936 Quality: Low Completeness: 30%

Insisting on a printed resume sent by postal mail in 2025 suggests a selective and possibly anachronistic company that holds itself apart from such passing fads as global networked computing.

I suggest you apply immediately, for it is surely the best chance you will ever have of working for a reclusive billionaire and his team of eccentric but brilliant staff. If you have ever worn a top hat and waistcoat to work, or felt that Wes Anderson movies are not so much comedies as ideals to be strived towards, this is your dream job. Type out the resume on a 1970 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter and sign it with a fountain pen.

Or, in other words, while this may be a sign of an old-fashioned organisation, it may also be a sign of an unusual and interesting one that is not cut from the same old boring corporate cloth. Both things may be true. It may also be a filter for more interesting candidates that fit the company culture. I am reminded of a job advertisement I saw for a sysadmin role in the early 2000s where they insisted the CV be provided as a LaTeX source file.