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Could you elaborate on this? I think DO has a right to hire however they want to but I'm curious about who they're auto-rejecting/why.



Last year I had my resume submitted by a third-party recruiter for a role there. My resume was rejected out-of-hand by the hiring manager because the companies/customers I had worked for were "too enterprisey" (i.e. I had only worked for government contractors at that point). The "too enterprisey" quote came directly from the recruiter. I suppose he could have been blowing smoke up my ass, but I don't think he would have said that if he was.


Ah, okay. Sounds like they were trying to focus on people with a specific type of experience and not blacklisting people based on a specific employer or anything.


Sorry, I didn't mean to imply they were blacklisting specific companies.


No problem, thanks for clarifying.




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