Co-founder, @DeepSourceHQ (YC W20). Helping developers ship good code.
Jun 6, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If resume parsing and matching it for job fit actually worked, we'd have already solved technical hiring. It doesn't, and anyone claiming otherwise is either a charlatan or hasn't launched their product yet to real people recruiting engineers.
In the absence of an objective source of truth about one's skills (which resumes aren't, and neither is your LinkedIn profile), any sort of matching to jobs is a farce. Most companies trying to do this believe they can solve it using NLP-based extraction and string matching.
