I gotta say, this is a great move for founders + companies: Commoditizing your components will lead to downward price pressure on engineering wages. Also, it's superficially great for employees too: apply to a common app and get prequalified for N companies rather than 1. But I doubt any of those companies will ACTUALLY change their hiring funnels, which means that this is just an extra, gratuitous step in the process. Perhaps there will be the benefit of being introduced to many hiring funnels at once, but that could have been achieved by an "are you hiring" email, or by checking out those companies' hiring websites.