The Hidden Pitfalls of AI Job Matching

Picture this: A Resume bullet says: "built X system that served 1M+ users at " A job description says: "implement metrics, logging, and dashboards." The AI sees no overlap and disqualifies the candidate. But any engineer who shipped to a million users (heck anyone who has built anything for any business) has absolutely built observability infrastructure, they just didn't waste resume space saying so. Sometimes they handcrafted the dashboards, sometimes they used already present tooling like Mixpanel and other observability platforms with built in dashboarding capabilities. The point is businesses require observability period . Observability is just one example. Testing, code review, documentation, incident response, none of it makes the resume because those are all implementation details of the role, the meat and the potatoes are the ✨results✨ Of course that's not to say those implementation details are unimportant, but time and place for everything, they're meant to be communicated ve