{"id":914403,"date":"2025-03-15T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=914403"},"modified":"2025-03-15T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:30:29","slug":"blinkit-job-opening-gets-13451-applications-in-one-day-x-post-sparks-debate-netizens-say-sad-reality-of-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/15\/blinkit-job-opening-gets-13451-applications-in-one-day-x-post-sparks-debate-netizens-say-sad-reality-of-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinkit job opening gets 13,451 applications in one day; X post sparks debate, netizens say \u2018sad reality of market\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A job posting of Zomato&#8217;s quick commerce arm Blinkit has sparked an online controversy. The company made a LinkedIn job post seeking a Software Development Engineer in Bengaluru, and its screenshot was shared by a user on X. The screenshot revealed the overwhelming response the post had received, attracting 13,451 applications in a single day. <\/p>\n<p>The post quickly went viral on X, with many users talking about the quality of the job market in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A job posting of Zomato&#8217;s quick commerce arm Blinkit has sparked an online controversy. The company made a LinkedIn job post seeking a Software Development Engineer in Bengaluru, and its screenshot was shared by a user on X. The screenshot revealed the overwhelming response the post had received, attracting 13,451 applications in a single day. The post quickly went viral on X, with many users talking about the quality of the job market in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}