You can't set reminders if you never knew the interview existed. It's still their fault, but it's an easy mistake to make.

but it's so rare for you to receive any response that you forget to check the website

I read it differently. It's an ambience. The author is not taking off actual interviews being scheduled.

Rather, replies to your applications are so few that you end up getting frustrated. Because of that, in the long run, you forget checking the website. Now, if in the meanwhile you get a reply, nobody's home to receive it.

You miss it not because you're lazy or careless, but because you're human and there's so much you can do to keep hoping.

not really the main point or any reason to dismiss the whole thing. we aren't playthings for corporations, the whole interviewing facade where we're supposed to be dutiful and perfect and company-fearing is dumb

Did you misread the second paragraph?

This has happened to me and there's some confusion in the comments so I'll attempt to clarify here, it's not missing an interview in the way we're perceiving it. What happens is;

On indeed, you can pre-fill out an application and "quick apply" to most jobs, and that's the entire application process for that job. If you're accepted for an interview, they will message you on the indeed app or maybe via email.

But many of the jobs you can apply to on indeed don't accept quick apply and instead direct you to their website, where you apply again, and from then on must log into their site frequently checking back for responses, potential invites to interviews, recommendations for other openings etc.

So they're not missing an interview they've been notified about, they're missing the notification of an upcoming interview because they didn't check the site that notified them.

Is that still on them? Yeah, technically. But many, many sites are now doing this on indeed. Back when I was applying it didn't take me long to be signed up for indeed + DG + Walmart+ Amazon + UPS etc etc.

I'm sure I'm signed up to at least 50 different sites. 99% of those sites will never notify me of anything aside from other job openings.

So you get forgetful sometimes, checking 50 sites a day can do that to you.

Then one of them offers you an interview on their site, but you only checked 40 sites today and spent the rest of your time mass quick applying to 100 new jobs instead of checking the remaining 10 sites that had a .001% chance of actually offering you a job anyway.

I mean, yeah, the blame is still on them. If you're in desperate need of a job with nothing else going on then you should be religiously checking every site you're signed up with. However, I can see forgetting to check one or two as well because there are a fucking lot and it's a lot to remember.

I remember hating to apply to jobs that required me to use their site so, so badly, because they ALREADY had my application from indeed but instead of just using that app they want me to arbitrarily sign up for their site instead, that's likely much more of a hassle than indeed, and add ANOTHER fucking layer of difficulty to just getting a damn job.

A better way to get employees seems to be to just accept quick applications from indeed, message them on the app and just set up a damn interview. With indeed available I'm not sure why these companies even use their own sites.