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People don’t fill out the 10 pages accurately, they just want it off their to-do list.

Because it lands on the desk of the head of HR, assistant to the COO, or MDs desk and in all honesty there not going to spend more than half an hour on it - so you've got 30 mins / number of questions.

I think the implication is that it’s gotten so long that people can’t be bothered to finish filling it out… (Anecdotally I can back this up—the one time I’ve remembered to fill it out in time, it took like 10 minutes…I haven’t bothered to fill it since)

Oh, I assumed it was mandatory, like tax returns or the census.

Because people aren't form-filling robots.

hey, I just had an HN AI startup idea! /s