This is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. A consultancy is basically using survey-type screening questions to bucket candidates, and another team see

This is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. A consultancy is basically using survey-type screening questions to bucket candidates, and another team seems to be doing some very basic text analysis to gauge team-type thinking. I was afraid this was going to be another ML debacle to "objectively" filter out people who don't fit the exact demographic mold the company already has. That said, approaches like this tend to just lead to more gaming on both sides. Once survey questions become popular, the "right" answers get figured out, posted in how-to guides, and the screening quickly becomes worthless. To me, this says that hiring still sucks for everyone involved.