The way I see it, most companies already use modern ATS to stack rank every application based on their resume using AI and then just go down the list. If you aren't already using a system like this at your company then you're playing at the same disadvantage most applicants are playing at.
Applicants are already having to send hundreds of applications to get a response and it's not because of tools like this. It's because they spend hours every day sifting through job postings and having to apply to as many as they can, and there are tens of thousand of engineers doing it every day. It's a tough market.
The plea of the recruiter and hiring manager that their job is too tough to sort through "too many" applications from people desperate to put food on their table and pay their rent is hard to empathize with. Especially when you are getting paid to do it and aren't at risk of homelessness like the annoying bugs flying around your prized job postings.
It's also hubris to think you can sit there and easily sort people into passionate and dispassionate buckets with a 100% accuracy like a god. And what? People who don't love whatever random service you work on don't deserve to have a job and rent money?
The truth is most of the people you work with every day are only there for the paycheck. If they can get a bigger pay check or better work life balance somewhere else, they'll leave.
> The way I see it, most companies already use modern ATS to stack rank every application based on their resume using AI and then just go down the list. If you aren't already using a system like this at your company then you're playing at the same disadvantage most applicants are playing at.
I already said, as have many others: I don't work at a company like this and never have. I haven't heard this said by anyone on the inside, it's always frustrated applicants. We review every application by hand.
> Applicants are already having to send hundreds of applications to get a response and it's not because of tools like this.
How do you know it's not? The timing is very suspicious.
> It's also hubris to think you can sit there and easily sort people into passionate and dispassionate buckets with a 100% accuracy like a god.
I didn't say that, I said we have high confidence we can eliminate automated applications at the expense of filtering out many sincere ones.
There's a very good algorithm that will do this with 100% accuracy: reject everyone. We're not doing that, but it's a spectrum of how much automation you're willing to let slip in, and the answer for us is "not much".
> The way I see it, most companies already use modern ATS to stack rank every application based on their resume using AI and then just go down the list.
I have never worked anywhere that has done this. Humans have always reviewed every application.
Applicants are already having to send hundreds of applications to get a response and it's not because of tools like this. It's because they spend hours every day sifting through job postings and having to apply to as many as they can, and there are tens of thousand of engineers doing it every day. It's a tough market.
The plea of the recruiter and hiring manager that their job is too tough to sort through "too many" applications from people desperate to put food on their table and pay their rent is hard to empathize with. Especially when you are getting paid to do it and aren't at risk of homelessness like the annoying bugs flying around your prized job postings.
It's also hubris to think you can sit there and easily sort people into passionate and dispassionate buckets with a 100% accuracy like a god. And what? People who don't love whatever random service you work on don't deserve to have a job and rent money? The truth is most of the people you work with every day are only there for the paycheck. If they can get a bigger pay check or better work life balance somewhere else, they'll leave.