It's not even that PDFs make it harder for editing, it's that most recruiters will copy-paste from your resume into a standardized template for that company, an

It's not even that PDFs make it harder for editing, it's that most recruiters will copy-paste from your resume into a standardized template for that company, and the recruiters are oftentimes so bad at technology or so overloaded with hundreds of candidates that they'd rather go with a Word doc to save 2 minutes to open up something else that might get wonky when you copy and paste it again (bullet points are a good example of differences from PDF to Word in how they're copied).