[Vince Ferrer]

First of all, algorithms already have an enormous influence on hiring. If you apply to a job online at most companies today, those jobs have dozens to hundreds of people applying for them. HR departments are not large enough to give every applicant a lengthy consideration. 75% of resumes are never read. The ones that do get read get flagged by the company's application scanning algorithms first, and forwarded to a human.

Secondly, the article danced around one of the big reasons why a company would use discretion, racial and gender quotas. The government will never stop social engineering, but they find it too distasteful to be obvious about it. So they would never require software to pick a certain percentage from bucket A and a certain percentage from bucket B. They need to be discrete, so they have to keep humans in the loop.

[Lazamataz]

First of all, algorithms already have an enormous influence on hiring. If you apply to a job online at most companies today, those jobs have dozens to hundreds of people applying for them. HR departments are not large enough to give every applicant a lengthy consideration. 75% of resumes are never read. The ones that do get read get flagged by the company's application scanning algorithms first, and forwarded to a human.

Apparently I've got a good resume. I never HAVE to apply for a job. I get three to ten pitches of people coming to me trying to hire me, every single week.