They is an incentive to minimize false positives (rejected after interview), but no penalty for false negatives (rejected at resume). In other words they are o

They is an incentive to minimize false positives (rejected after interview), but no penalty for false negatives (rejected at resume). In other words they are over-optimizing their pipelines by rejecting too many people at the head of the funnel. Their logic makes some sense. Interviewing is expensive. Maybe this is a broader risk in over-optimization. If we overqualify leads then we end up with suboptimal prospects.