Their hiring criteria are ridiculous. Every job I have ever applied for through USAJobs and other government systems (NASA STARS, US Navy CHART, and several others I cannot remember the names of at the moment) has resulted in a rejected application.
NASA's system told me that I was not qualified to work on rocket telemetry systems, even though I was then working as a telemetry engineer for the prime contractor on the NSROC II sounding rocket contract.
The Navy's system told me that I was not qualified to work on aircraft instrumentation and telemetry systems for NAVAIR, even though one of my past jobs was as an aircraft instrumentation and telemetry systems engineer for NAVAIR.
My wife has similar anecdotal experiences. She applied for a job with the federal government requiring experience as a K-12 biology teacher. She was rejected even though she worked as a high school biology teacher for almost a decade and won several national awards and two educational fellowships.
