Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers • Hacker News Board

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by threetonesun » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:13 PM UTC

MrBrobot wrote: post #103

> Candidates tell Fortune that AI interviewers make them feel unappreciated to the point where they’d rather skip out on potential job opportunities, reasoning the company’s culture can’t be great if human bosses won’t make the time to interview them. But HR experts argue the opposite; since AI interviewers can help hiring managers save time in first-round calls, the humans have more time to have more meaningful conv…

Same argument for removing customer service with chatbots or AI. It's entirely untrue, and creates a much worse customer experience, but because people drop out your KPIs / NPS is based off of people who were willing to put up with shit to get to a real human.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by rustman123 » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:13 PM UTC

Why is it even necessary to be an interview? If the computer is used to generate a summary anyway, why not do it via email with one or two follow ups?

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by morkalork » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:14 PM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #76

Can’t say I’m surprised this latest evil comes out of HR land. Despite the name they’re not big on the human stuff

Helps when you put more emphasis on resources part of HR; just something to be strip mined, processed and then discarded in a heap of slag.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by hopelite » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC

assword wrote: post #116

siva7 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somehow i would rather stay homeless or prostitute myself than throwing my dignity away by letting an a.i. assess me over the whole job interview. Yet this is where we are heading. Being graded by openai (and co). Iris scanned by openai. Who knows what comes next..

Eh, they’ll strip everything else from you, don’t let them take your pride.

Little do most people realize that they’ve already taken that; as they spend more of their life with literal strangers working for and to advance not just others, but even what may as well be gods in far off places and in sky scraper mount olympuses, living decadent lives off the work and ruin of others, who trade their time in life and the life and experiences of their children, to be raised by regime goons instead of their own parents or at least their mother who is also serving another man/person.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by romaniv » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:16 PM UTC

Step one, companies create AI gauntlet for their applicants.

Step two, those companies lose access to the top talent who will simply go interview somewhere else or get a job in some other way.

Step three, less scrupulous candidates start to cheat these automated systems. There will also be paid services helping you cheat.

Final outcome: most of the people who get to the actual interviews in those companies will be candidates with dubious skills at the actual job, willing and able to cheat corporate policies.

Unfortunately, this will take a couple of years to play out to its logical conclusion.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by CraigJPerry » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

card_zero wrote: post #110

CraigJPerry wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the goods ought to have become cheaper Counter-factual: https://www.tescoplc.com/investors/reports-results-and-prese... Cost of food up. Number of employees down (despite number of stores going up) Profits up. I'd make an argument here about the desperate need for critical thinking in economics, the typically upside down nature of discourse (topics in economics are often approached with "i must defend what i know"…

I like the phrase "you can't get an ought from an is", but the word "ought" doesn't always carry moral meaning. If an annoying alarm is beeping and I cut off its power, I might say "it ought to have stopped beeping". That's not a moral opinion, it's invoking a model of how the alarm works and the law of conservation of energy. Here the law of supply and demand is being invoked. Hume needn't get involved.

Why does supply and demand get promoted from a useful, widely applicable model to a universally true law?

Supply and demand is a model, not a law.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by inanutshellus » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

bthrn wrote: post #125

It's funny how employers try to rationalize this -- take Coinbase, for example: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/how-coinbase-is-embracing-ai-i... > While some worry AI will dehumanize the hiring process, we believe the opposite. Deploying AI will enable more quality interactions, more quickly for the candidates who are the best fit for our jobs– without unnecessary administrative tasks or distractions. We fully believe…

"Let's face it: the only people that should pass this interview are those that build an AI response bot to pass the test for them. Then we can both get to talking human-to-human."

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by morkalork » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

TheRoque wrote: post #78

What's preventing job seekers to come up with their own AI avatar job seeker and use it to attend these interviews? I ask this question sincerely because I have no clue how such interview goes, and where is the added value compared to just an automated email

Obviously you have the candidate show up in person and do the screening in person!

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by siva7 » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:18 PM UTC

hopelite wrote: post #144

assword wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, they’ll strip everything else from you, don’t let them take your pride.

Little do most people realize that they’ve already taken that; as they spend more of their life with literal strangers working for and to advance not just others, but even what may as well be gods in far off places and in sky scraper mount olympuses, living decadent lives off the work and ruin of others, who trade their time in life and the life and experiences of their children, to be raised by regime goons instead…

One of the deepest statements i've read on hn!

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by 9rx » Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 2:18 PM UTC

egypturnash wrote: post #126

9rx wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> except they forget people also need money to buy their goods. Do they? Money is simply the accounting of debt. You do something for me, and when I can't immediately do something in return for you, you extend a loan to me so that I can make good on my side of the bargain later. If we record that I owe you something at some point in the future, we just created money! But if I don't need anything from you — because, s…

Your landlord demands money every month. So do your local utilities - power, gas, water, sewage, garbage collection, phone, internet, etc. Is magical AI going to materialize food out of nowhere for you, with no need for any raw materials to be consumed in the process? Will it make clothes out of nothing?

> Your landlord demands money every month.

As if the "AI champion" will have a landlord. Methinks you've not thought this through.

> So do your local utilities - power, gas, water, sewage, garbage collection, phone, internet, etc.

Unless he owns all that too. Even if that doesn't play out, safe to say that in said hypothetical future it will be owned by a very small group of people. And while they may still have some trade amongst themselves, there will still be no need to sell things to the average Joe.

> Is magical AI going to materialize food out of nowhere for you, with no need for any raw materials to be consumed in the process? Will it make clothes out of nothing?

The magical AI will, yes. But as it is magical, you are right that this future branch is unlikely. Much more likely is the future where people remain relevant.