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Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by Mordisquitos »

saagarjha wrote: post #9
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's saying the quiet part out loud but all companies think the same whenever they design the hoops their candidates have to jump through. It's shocking to me people are offended of hearing people tell the truth. Would you prefer if he lied to you and called you "valuable family members" instead? Edit to clarify for all those below who misread: I meant "the truth" as in "transparency" from his perspective of how he r…

I manage our interview pipeline and none of our hoops involve AI interviewers. You can just not do them; that remains an option.

That's shocking and irresponsible. Won't somebody please think of the shareholders' profits?

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Post by okasaki »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #7
saagarjha wrote: post #3

> “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. Man, what a ghoul.

He's saying the quiet part out loud but all companies think the same whenever they design the hoops their candidates have to jump through. It's shocking to me people are offended of hearing people tell the truth. Would you prefer if he lied to you and called you "valuable family members" instead? Edit to clarify for all those below who misread: I meant "the truth" as in "transparency" from his perspective of how he r…

He's the CEO of a company that does AI interviews. He's promoting the company, not telling you uncomfortable truths.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by yetihehe »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #10
Garlef wrote: post #5

Maybe we can get a counter-AI that does the AI interview for us?

I had the same thought. The CEO of Braintrust, a company that offers AI interviewers, is quoted as saying “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” . Let's see how they react to the founding of 'Trainbust', a company offering AI interviewees to respond to AI interviewers. The truth is, if they want to use AI interviewers, they’re gonna have to go through this thing.

> It should be noted that not all AI interviewers are created equal—there’s a wide range of AI interviewers entering the market.

Maybe someone will make an AI to interview the AI interviewers and see which one is the best? AI's interviewing human candidates gonna have to go through this thing.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by xacky »

andrewstuart wrote: post #2

Employers only fix this sort of thing when they’re short of candidates. When there’s plenty of candidates they happily shove them all down a terrible recruiting pipeline.

This is why we need more "job creator" schemes. Why work for a terrible company when you can be a good company creating jobs for everyone. We need more entrepreneurs than ever, especially when in 2050 we will need jobs for 10 billion people.

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Post by weikju »

PicassoCTs wrote: post #6
pjmlp wrote: post #4

It is all almost making richer even more richer, instead of properly hiring people for HR, AI bots. Instead of having more people at the supermarket, have the customers work as if they were employees, the only thing missing is fetching stuff from warehouse when missing on the shelves, but still pay the same or more. Instead of paying to artists, do job ads using generated AI images with code magically showing off mon…

Im half expecting the appearance of virtual people any day. Basically cooperate sponsored UBI - but for bots, so they can buy virtual goods and services, finally decoupling the economy from the desert of the real.

That is sadly a likely outcome. An evolution of the companies forcing/encouraging employees to buy the company’s goods.

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Post by lemoncookiechip »

Den_VR wrote: post #8
saagarjha wrote: post #3

> “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. Man, what a ghoul.

Count ourselves lucky they haven’t lucky figured out how to make literal ghouls out of silica and the recently dead, because these people would. Just what happened that caused employers to hold so much power in the employee-employer relationship? The collapse of collective bargaining, sure. But what else…

Decades and decades of unfettered Capitalism.

- Labor protections getting weaker over time, plus courts usually siding with employers. Overtime laws got chipped away, and a lot of folks get called "contractors" when they're basically employees.

- Jobs can move overseas way easier now, so workers don't really have the same leverage they used to.

- Big companies buying everything up, regional monopolies forming, and those non-compete clauses making it harder for people to switch jobs.

- At-will employment, temp work, gig jobs, outsourcing, just makes job security pretty shaky.

- Decades of anti-union talk, pushing this whole "you're on your own" idea, and selling "flexibility" like it's some amazing benefit.

- More workplace surveillance, algorithm-based schedules, and automated tracking, just gives the employer more control.

People quite literally fought tooth and nail with blood sweat and tears to gain their rights over the course of years and years during the 18th and 19th century. Many quite literally died, and a lot more were beaten to pulp by the job owners who hired muscle to do it.

Those gains we made have slowly been eroded.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #7
saagarjha wrote: post #3

> “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. Man, what a ghoul.

He's saying the quiet part out loud but all companies think the same whenever they design the hoops their candidates have to jump through. It's shocking to me people are offended of hearing people tell the truth. Would you prefer if he lied to you and called you "valuable family members" instead? Edit to clarify for all those below who misread: I meant "the truth" as in "transparency" from his perspective of how he r…

> all companies think the same whenever they design the hoops their candidates have to jump through

Stop making hoops. Like what part of tech hiring do you really think you’ve innovated on enough to justify making new hoops?

Hell, you’d think with AI and everyone’s digital footprint you’d be able to reduce the number of hoops.

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Post by linker3000 »

pjmlp wrote: post #4

It is all almost making richer even more richer, instead of properly hiring people for HR, AI bots. Instead of having more people at the supermarket, have the customers work as if they were employees, the only thing missing is fetching stuff from warehouse when missing on the shelves, but still pay the same or more. Instead of paying to artists, do job ads using generated AI images with code magically showing off mon…

At least one of my local, out of town, supermarkets doesn't have a warehouse any more.

It's all Just in Time, with a residual amount above the main shelves. If you can't find what you want, they don't have it 'out back', because apart from an unloading area, there's no 'out back'.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by askonomm »

weikju wrote: post #15
PicassoCTs wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im half expecting the appearance of virtual people any day. Basically cooperate sponsored UBI - but for bots, so they can buy virtual goods and services, finally decoupling the economy from the desert of the real.

That is sadly a likely outcome. An evolution of the companies forcing/encouraging employees to buy the company’s goods.

Does that mean that Company Towns are coming back?
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