I understand the rationale here given the company stage/scale. I recently had a similar discussion with the hiring manager on the same topic where the conclusio

I understand the rationale here given the company stage/scale. I recently had a similar discussion with the hiring manager on the same topic where the conclusion is pretty much the same - focusing on minimising false positives, rather than keeping account for false negatives. There is nothing wrong with this obviously, just statistically speaking you might still miss out on very good talent (not referring to myself by any means). From my personal experience though, I wouldn't know if that was the reason why the CV was tossed, but once transitioned into the interview stage it was never the issue.