Unfortunately this doesn't line up with reality. "Tricks" like these are needed to get through the nonsensical recruitment/HR obstacle course for many companies.
I have never had to do anything like this, and I have never applied to more than a few companies before receiving an offer except during the dotcom crash. Even then it wasn't dozens of companies.
Can you provide some context to your past experiences? In x years, I had y number of jobs, of those y jobs, I only had to apply to z number of companies before getting an interview?
Also, say google is hiring an ML engg and there are 1000 applications, what do you think does the recruiter do to 1000 resumes?
