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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 ekianjo »

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…

on one hand people complain about sweatshops but on the other hand when the repetitive, soul crushing, low paid job is replaced by technology people complain as well. you can't have it both ways.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by wolvesechoes »

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…

> except they forget people also need money to buy their goods.

As implied by the sibling comment, the final stage is that they do not need people to buy anything.

Dead internet theory is too narrow in its vision.

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Post by aaron695 »

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…

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Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #18
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…

> 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.

Where do you see ME making the hoops or defending the hoops?

But every company has their own version of hoops that you need to get that job. Nobody is forcing you though. You can just avoid the companies who's hoops you don't like.

What part of that I just said is false?

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Post by ekianjo »

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.

I mean as a CEO you can imagine he would not admit "thats sucks, dont buy our product" in public.

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Post by Eisenstein »

ekianjo wrote: post #21
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…

on one hand people complain about sweatshops but on the other hand when the repetitive, soul crushing, low paid job is replaced by technology people complain as well. you can't have it both ways.

When did sweat shops get automated?

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by pjmlp »

ekianjo wrote: post #21
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…

on one hand people complain about sweatshops but on the other hand when the repetitive, soul crushing, low paid job is replaced by technology people complain as well. you can't have it both ways.

People forget that in some parts of the globe sweatshops are the only jobs people can get, where are they supposed to work instead?

There is a middle ground, no need to treat people like slaves, nor throw them into the street without alternative source of income.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

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.

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Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by chii »

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…

> they forget people also need money to buy their goods.

the goods ought to have become cheaper if the ai/mechanization/industrialization is cheaper than labour.

And also when "the rich" have more profit, they now want to spend that profit on things, which spawns new luxury good industries.

Of course, the news cycle and the sob stories always revolve around people losing their existing jobs, but there is new jobs around that previously didnt exist. Jobs that people previously never thought was even "a job".

Of course, it is up to the individual to search and find their niche, and to produce value to sustain their own existence. The advent of AI is not going to be different.

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