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.
Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
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#32> “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 not telling “the truth”, he is doing marketing propaganda trying to create an air of inevitability around his firms offering as a cognitive hack to get people (both potential buyers and people who might otherwise create pressure that potential buyers respond to) to be less likely to critically evaluate and respond to the offering, getting them to view it as simply a necessity for the future market that they need to adapt to rather than a choice with real costs beyond the sticker price that meed to be carefully weighed against demonstrable benefits.
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#33I'm a big proponent of AI as a tool for work, but unless you have a perfect received pronunciation accent, voice chat is painful. It's as if the AI chatbots were trained on Radio 4 and not much else.
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#34It 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 aro…
One such kind of jobs have leaders like in those mythical Robin Hood stories.
Those jobs certainly never go out of fashion, as seen in poorer world regions, where you as well say, people find new jobs all the time.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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> What does this have to do with what I just said?
It literally directly contradicts the idea that what he is saying is, as you claim, “the truth”.
> Did you see me defending their hoops or defending their honesty?
Since the claim that you described as “the truth” is that product is simply an inevitability that everyone will have to deal with, defending their honesty is defending the hoops.
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#36Maybe 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.
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#37Maybe we can get a counter-AI that does the AI interview for us?
That would be cheating!
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#38> “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 is not saying the truth of how it works. He is trying to build the world where it will be true.
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#39> “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…
My issue with the statement is that it's completely ignoring the cost of friction in the interview pipeline.
In a job seeker applies to 20 jobs, 10 of which have a pleasant interview pipeline that respect the interviewee as a person as well as respecting their time, and 10 which don't (AI interviews, unreasonable at-home tasks, etc), they are more likely to end up in the former group. If you make your interview process worse you either have to make a better offer to entice people to put up with it, or you get worse candidates. No matter what you do there is almost always someone desperate enough to jump through all the hurdles you put up, but desperation is inversely correlated with quality
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> What does this have to do with what I just said? It literally directly contradicts the idea that what he is saying is, as you claim, “the truth”. > Did you see me defending their hoops or defending their honesty? Since the claim that you described as “the truth” is that product is simply an inevitability that everyone will have to deal with, defending their honesty is defending the hoops.
>It literally directly contradicts the idea that what he is saying is, as you claim, “the truth”.
It's the truth from his perspective of how he runs his company and how he views the relationship with employees, not the idealist holy ground truth of how things should work. I imagined that was obvious when I made the statement with family.