Challenge for everyone insisting that ATS doesn’t filter out resumes.

Like a lot of beliefs on Reddit that are taken as hard truths, the conviction that ATSes don’t auto-filter resumes is totally false. Most of them do. And yes, I do have firsthand knowledge of this. I’m glad the poster is pushing back on this idea because it’s so very wrong.

Where the disconnect of understanding occurs is that even a lot of people in HR don’t know how their ATSes are configured, and don’t realize that the filtering occurs before they see anything. They are convinced they are reviewing every resume, when in reality they are only reviewing resumes that haven’t been discarded by the ATS already as configured by the vendor and/or higher ups.

ATSes are very complex. Most of the HR people offering the contention that “Our ATS doesn’t filter anything!” don’t have any idea how their ATS functions or where to even check if filtering is occurring. And another part is just outright lying. Mostly, though, as usual in human affairs it’s just plain ol’ incompetence.