A lot of it can be luck, a lot can be that people aren't taught to write resumes or one of the 100 other small things that turn away recruiters.

I do think its sorta funny that on /r/dataisbeautiful someone can be like "okay dude 1000 resumes is a statistical anomaly"

I interviewed a guy today who's resume was messy to say the least. Vague experience, bad capitalization, unclosed parenthesis. Just silly stuff I've trained myself to look for for mine and resumes I look at for friends. When I finally interviewed him, he had some of the most creative solutions to problems I've seen in a while, in depth knowledge, communicated well, etc.

So much emphasis is put on the dumb resume because its used as a terrible filter. I'm sure other companies would overlook this guy but they'd honestly miss out on someone incredibly smart and talented.

All that said, its insane how many resumes people will send out, and its awful that tech workers need to bring work home with them in order to find a job. The culture around hiring is awful and recruiters need to be trained to overlook the BS so people can get jobs. Nice resumes rarely indicate the type of employee.