Job applications that ask too many questions! Egads!

And, everything is online and takes forever to fill out with go from page to page to page.

Lots of fees to pay too for background checks and such.
this sounds like a scam. Not the long online forms, that's just how it's sometimes done, but the fees.

(I have paid fees for apartment rental background checks -those are mostly just credit checks I think - but that's different - it's usually only done when you are going to get the apartment with near certainty for one thing)