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Arguments we had while building this.
Positions rather than announcements. There is no product news yet, so these are the decisions underneath the product instead.
- // 001A match score is not a reasonEvery ATS on the market will hand you a number between 0 and 100. Almost none of them will tell you what it is made of — and that is the whole problem.Essay6 min read
- // 002What we will not automateThere is a version of this product that rejects candidates on its own. It would be easy to build, customers would ask for it, and we are not going to.Position4 min read
- // 003Write the job as requirements before you read anyoneMost shortlists are indefensible for a boring reason: nobody agreed what the job needed until after they started reading applications.Practice5 min read
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