[lunaticlabs]

What is probably happening, based on my own experience inside companies doing hiring, is that we generally get flooded with CVs anytime we put up a job listing, and most of them are irrelevant. To help manage the flow of applicants, we use recruiters and HR people to filter the resumes. Since they don’t know how to evaluate engineers, inevitably they filter CVs by the somewhat arbitrary criteria that is in the job listing.

My recommendation for you, when you see a job listing, is to investigate the company and project, try and find people on the responsible teams, and see if you can network or reach out to them directly. This often will get you past the arbitrary screening that is setup, and they’re much more likely to be able to judge you on your merits and not whether you meet some arbitrary filtering goal. The first pass in hiring is always a fast rejection pass, and is rarely one that is looking for qualified people, just one that is trying to get the flow of applicants down to a manageable level.