AI hiring tool rejected me for a typo in my resume

Applied to a tech company in Austin last week and got an auto-rejection within 2 minutes. Found out later their AI parser flagged my resume because I wrote 'mananger' instead of 'manager' in one bullet point. A human would have brushed it off, but the bot just trashed my application. How many good candidates are getting filtered out over tiny mistakes like that?

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dylan_bell5mo ago

My cousin got bounced from a grocery store self checkout last week because the scale didn't detect his bag of apples in 0.5 seconds. Same deal, machines just can't handle small variations.

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julia_lee3mo ago

Oh man, that reminds me of the time I got flagged for "unexpected item" when I literally just sneezed near the scanner. Guess I'm not cut out for robot shopping either.

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drewsullivan5mo ago

Man, that's frustrating for your cousin @dylan_bell. Those scales are way too sensitive for normal people just trying to buy apples (or whatever, you know).

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