While I have fairly limited experience with BigCo hiring, my poor resume has made it through at least a couple HR filters without any attempt on my part to do any keyword matching.
Even in the cases where HR is literally grepping the resume for certain target words, the requirements themselves aren't conjured out of thin air. Therefore, I feel some of the blame is shared by the department doing the hiring. After all, they know a filter is being applied by a team without domain knowledge and should tailor it accordingly.
But could it be conceivable that they're really nothing special?
Perhaps HR was right after all.
Affable but averagely talented guys with a few rich pals, most of them.
Founders are very different types of people, the type of people who while great at starting companies, but different people are required at different stages of a company.
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I can't remember which company this story was from (I think it was Lotus Software).
Basically the HR team of a multi-billion dollar startup were given the anonymised resumes of the first 10-20 founding team members.
HR rejected them all. Not one founding team member was accepted even for a short interview.
Tells you something about HR doesn't it?
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Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4699673
Same problem as found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470941