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I was rejected for a job 6 minutes after I applied. I told the company that AI was screening out strong candidates.
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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Most companies hiring process seems to be a mix of incompetent and malicious.
Many posts are for jobs that don't exist or they have no intention of filling. That should be illegal.
I had a posting the other day that said python, Django, react. I actually heard back from the recruiter, but he said the job was actually for Java. He didn't seem concerned that that's a whole other language.
Unfortunately, they don't really have an incentive to be better. They get so many applications that they can be inefficient and still get candidates.