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# Elite Engineers Don't Match Their Resumes Anymore
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/elite-engineers-dont-match-their-resumes-anymore/
- Published: 2026-10-05T10:12:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-05T10:12:51.000Z
- Description: A recruiter’s observation that top software engineers present themselves far worse on paper than in person exposes a problem: thousands of AI-generated CVs have made resume screening useless as a filtering mechanism.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-consumer, attention economy, creator economy, privacy

Source: [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/10/04/job-search-tips-ai-hiring-recruiter/?ref=adjacent.media)

A recruiter's observation that top software engineers present themselves far worse on paper than in person exposes a problem: thousands of AI-generated CVs have made resume screening useless as a filtering mechanism. Hiring is shifting back toward expensive human interaction and reference networks that favor insiders. The resume's meritocratic promise inverts. Connected candidates get access to real evaluation while everyone else drowns in algorithmic noise.