I think the discrimination aspect is downstream from this fact:

> We follow 3.4 million people who submit 4 million job applications to 1,700 job postings across 150 employers and 11 industry sectors. Each job application was assessed by an AI hiring tool built by a single third-party vendor.

3.4 million people applying to just 150 employers... Who are all using just 1 platform. WTF. This is where the discrimination is happening. Why the f do 3.4 million people feel forced to apply to just 150 employers and why the f do all these 150 employers feel forced to use just one platform. WTF.

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zeroonetwothree a day ago | parent [-]

That’s the platform that gave them the data. I don’t think they claim it’s all the applications of this set of people.

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jongjong a day ago | parent [-]

I realise this but it's still incredible to think because that's about 22k applicants per company.

Even if that's just part of each company's total hiring pipeline, it's clear; something's wrong. I don't know how long this study has been running but 22k is a lot of people, even over a year. These companies are too big. That's the problem.

	▲	mstewartgallus an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Capitalism develops into monopolies pretty inevitably. Economies of scale just make monopolies more profitable. Monopolies also get in bed with the state and do dirty tricks to stamp out competition. But monopoly capitalism has been the case for over a 100 years now.