clasic-j May 17, 2025, 10:02 p.m.
Did my resume get auto-rejected because of my name?? AI hiring bias is real and nobody's talking about it
Just found out something that's making me sick to my stomach and I need to know if anyone else has experienced this. I've been applying to jobs for 3 months, sending out probably 200+ applications, and getting literally ZERO responses. Not even rejections half the time, just complete silence.
Yesterday my friend (who works in HR at a tech company) told me that most big companies now use AI to screen resumes before any human even sees them. She said these systems can be incredibly biased and might be automatically filtering out candidates based on names that "sound ethnic" or don't fit whatever pattern the AI was trained on.
I have a distinctly Middle Eastern name and I'm starting to wonder if that's why I'm getting nowhere despite having solid qualifications. Like, my resume gets past the AI gatekeeper for white-sounding names but gets buried when it's attached to mine. The scary part is this is all happening invisibly - there's no way to know if you're being discriminated against by a machine.
Has anyone else noticed patterns like this? I'm thinking about doing an experiment where I submit the same resume with different names to see what happens. This feels like digital discrimination that's way worse than human bias because at least humans can be held accountable. These AI systems are just black boxes making decisions about people's lives.
??? May 19, 2025, 12:46 a.m.
easy for you to say. I literally tested this with my Indian name vs "John Smith" - same resume, john got callbacks, I didn't. this shit is documented and real