I think what's more worrying to me (if other systems work like this ATS) is that it seems to judge based on a bunch of factors that will probably disqualify a ton of decent to good participants.

For example, 65 points are given for a mix of personal projects and open source contributions. Which is great if your one and only interest is in tech, and you don't have a family, dependents or a second/third job. If you have any of those other things, well the odds seem like they're incredibly stacked against you.

And it makes me wonder how many of these systems are stacked in favour of wealthy people with a near special interest level of obsession with tech and no worries outside of going to college/working a single job in their industry of choice.

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bob001 an hour ago | parent [-]

Here's the brutal truth about life: it's not inherently fair and no one really cares about your circumstances. That means many people will be able to do things or have opportunities that you cannot have. That doesn't mean you have no power however that you need to make a conscious long term effort to get that power one piece at a time.

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danmaz74 an hour ago | parent [-]

Of course life isn't fair. But here the result is that companies will ignore potentially great candidates which dedicate all their programming time to their job and instead consider candidates which may be not just worse programmers, but also are more interested in their hobbies (or padding their CV) that doing their job.

I'm saying this as somebody who most of the time has some side project going on.

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bob001 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

The point of most recruitment pipelines isn't to avoid missing a great candidate but to avoid hiring a bad candidate. There's many great candidates so missing some or many is fine. Hiring a bad candidate however is very expensive to deal with. Many smaller companies view workaholism and a potential to work 996 as a very valuable thing to hire for.

	▲	danmaz74 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> There's many great candidates Perhaps for top-paying companies, but that's never been my experience when I was involved in interviewing and hiring.