In some fairness to them, getting your specific job is less important than avoiding a lawsuit from Apple’s rather aggressive legal department.
I definitely empathize with your perspective. Simultaneously, I can also see how it would be most ideally fair to candidates to have some method of evaluating them without relying on intimate details of recent job experience.
E.g., let’s pretend that Steve Wozniak took 5 years off to raise children, are you going to pass him up because he has no job experience from the last 5 years? You’d be well within your rights to, but as a hiring manager I want to choose the best candidate, not the candidate with the best resume.
I definitely empathize with your perspective. Simultaneously, I can also see how it would be most ideally fair to candidates to have some method of evaluating them without relying on intimate details of recent job experience.
E.g., let’s pretend that Steve Wozniak took 5 years off to raise children, are you going to pass him up because he has no job experience from the last 5 years? You’d be well within your rights to, but as a hiring manager I want to choose the best candidate, not the candidate with the best resume.