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Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by tveita »

JohnFen wrote: post #2

> If your potential employer is dehumanizing you before you’re on the payroll, how will they treat you once hired? For me, this is the key point. If a company can't even be bothered to show up for my interview -- when everyone is trying to put their best foot forward -- that bodes very ill for how I'll be treated if I were to work there.

I absolutely agree in principle, but I understand that the companies are also seeing a lot more applicants trying to skate past screening and interviews with AI assistance.

Connecting verified humans for a mutually respectful chat is a trust problem that companies like LinkedIn should be creating solutions for, instead of offering both sides automated shovels to shovel slop faster.

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by nirava »

shanjai_raj7 wrote: post #294

I build AI agents and honestly the problem here is not that it was an AI doing the interview. The problem is the company did not care enough to make the experience good. A well built agent can ask better questions than a bad human interviewer. This just sounds like low effort from the company side.

> did not care enough to make the experience good

Part of that good experience is talking to a genuine human

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by manfre »

hansvm wrote: post #146
nitwit005 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me the issue isn't seeming inhuman, but cost. Employers often seem happy to impose rediculous time costs on the people they're hiring: take home tests, long series of interviews, etc. What held that back is they also paid a price. Full automation leaves them free to impose infinite cost with no guarantee of anything.

The last time I was hiring I gave out a take-home test, and I thought it was the opposite of an imposition on candidates' time. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts: - It was designed to be fast to complete (20min max -- not a huge imposition if being hired is likely, obviously very expensive if you're taking one for every job posting). - I only gave them out after a resume screen. If you had a 0% chance then I didn'…

Any take home test trivial enough to complete in under 20 minutes could be completed by an AI. The only signal you get from a take home test is whether or not they can submit answers. It doesn't let you know if the candidate is capable of passing the test unassisted.

Take home tests were never a worthwhile signal. Pre-AI, people would search for solutions or have another person complete it.

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by stainablesteel »

JohnFen wrote: post #2

> If your potential employer is dehumanizing you before you’re on the payroll, how will they treat you once hired? For me, this is the key point. If a company can't even be bothered to show up for my interview -- when everyone is trying to put their best foot forward -- that bodes very ill for how I'll be treated if I were to work there.

it's a filtering step, they want people who are willing to work like slaves and it's fairly dystopian

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by rkomorn »

stainablesteel wrote: post #305
JohnFen wrote: post #2

> If your potential employer is dehumanizing you before you’re on the payroll, how will they treat you once hired? For me, this is the key point. If a company can't even be bothered to show up for my interview -- when everyone is trying to put their best foot forward -- that bodes very ill for how I'll be treated if I were to work there.

it's a filtering step, they want people who are willing to work like slaves and it's fairly dystopian

I don't have any positive feelings about AI interviewers, but I don't believe your take is correct. I agree that it does filter as you describe, but it's just a side effect.

I think the actual reason is simply that they're lazy and don't care.

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by dspillett »

EGreg wrote: post #219
arctic-true wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this experience when I was trying to find an apartment - multiple different buildings very clearly had AI-generated responses. (To all you builders out there: quick replies are great. Instant replies are suspicious.) I immediately stopped considering them as options. If you can’t be bothered to have a human respond to my email when I’m trying to give you my money, what level of service can I expect once I’m alr…

That goes for all AI generated content If you can’t be bothered to write something to me personally, why should I deal with you? :)

It's like the Google¹ advert “if your phone can answer your friends text, shouldn't it, instead of them waiting or you”. No, it 'king shouldn't. And if I find they are using automation to talk to me, I'll talk to someone else. Or I'll bot up myself and have my people talk to their people…

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[1] I think it was one of theirs, could have been one of the Android phone makers that has gone all-in on nagging me to give their bot something to do with itself.

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by TimeCalibrator »

Sometimes talking to an AI bot feels like when Plankton put Spongebob's brain into a robot and the robot still would not listen to Plankton at all lol. I was on the phone with a bot the other day and it acknowledged it couldn't help me with my issue, but it still wouldn't let me speak to a real agent.

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by randomNumber7 »

arctic-true wrote: post #16
JohnFen wrote: post #2

> If your potential employer is dehumanizing you before you’re on the payroll, how will they treat you once hired? For me, this is the key point. If a company can't even be bothered to show up for my interview -- when everyone is trying to put their best foot forward -- that bodes very ill for how I'll be treated if I were to work there.

I had this experience when I was trying to find an apartment - multiple different buildings very clearly had AI-generated responses. (To all you builders out there: quick replies are great. Instant replies are suspicious.) I immediately stopped considering them as options. If you can’t be bothered to have a human respond to my email when I’m trying to give you my money, what level of service can I expect once I’m alr…

> If you can’t be bothered to have a human respond to my email when I’m trying to give you my money, what level of service can I expect once I’m already obligated to pay rent?

Most people fail to come to a conclusion by induction so they'll find enough customers.

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by randomNumber7 »

whatever1 wrote: post #197
lurking_swe wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They could at least allow hiring teams to send out a feedback email that highlights what the candidate did WELL, at a high level. This way the candidate gets some meaningful signal, while the company avoids the legal gray area of admitting why they rejected them. Just add a disclaimer like “unfortunately company policy prohibits us from explicitly mentioning why we chose another candidate.” But you’d need to actually…

Have you ever talked to a lawyer? The only thing that they keep repeating is "shut your mouth".

Which is the right advise when you live in the current society.
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