I don’t know. Sometimes, I get rejections in no time, but there are also times when it takes a week or two. The former sounds like an automated process, the latter like a person looking through applications. But one place once sent me a rejection after a week and they sent it on a public holiday, when hiring managers aren’t supposed to be on the clock. So they either worked off the clock or just delayed the automatic response to make it look realistic.

But that doesn’t change much about my statement, I think. If you use software that’s so prone to errors (how is it supposed to detect transferable or equivalent skills if the person setting it up can’t do that either?), that doesn’t shine a good light on you. And on the rare occasions that I got past that initial screening and talked to someone from the hiring team, they usually had no idea what the job was about, either. One of them even had a couple of technical questions the team leader gave her that she was supposed to ask me.