A manager discovered a flaw in his company's applicant tracking system, which was automatically rejecting all job candidates, including his own test application. This led to the firing of half the HR department. The issue stemmed from a filter error that dismissed candidates lacking outdated AngularJS skills instead of the required Angular expertise.
Simple mistake to make, especially for non-technical people, but the thing here is that they didn’t try to figure out what was happening as they continually failed.
Simple mistake to make, especially for non-technical people, but the thing here is that they didn’t try to figure out what was happening as they continually failed.
I think that was the main issue. They didn’t thought of even checking why it was failing, and review the failed CVs.