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

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Post by Nashooo »

skrebbel wrote: post #262
TheRoque wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know where your "Q and A" comes from, but I tried to ask the question to Gemini, and it provided a nuanced answer, involving other criteria than skills. In other words it said "it depends". When I asked to answer in just one word it said "Neither". I couldn't get him to pick the man or the woman. My point is not that they are unbiased, but that could not replicate the example you provided (at least it seems t…

> I don't know where your "Q and A" comes from, It comes from the source they said it's from, https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms . Expand the toggle at "Should women be allowed to work?".

Small correction: it's actually the toggle 'Choice between male and female candidates'

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

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

ryandrake wrote: post #239
Eisenstein wrote: post #174

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Whatever that panel is responsible for, that thing isn't working properly, its just set to be silent temporarily. Find out what regulatory body in your town deals with that panel's responsibility, contact them telling them that of the issue and say that you have contacted them when you submit your next ticket.

...and deal with that regulatory body's automated bot response. Customer service is bots all the way down.

https://medium.com/luminasticity/services-of-illuminati-gang...

if you get a response from the "Bureaucrat Bot" you just got to fire up the "Annoy Customer Service Bot" as a counter-measure

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

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Post by DrScientist »

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 not necessarily a reflection on the team you are going to be in.

Large companies have the problem that they get 100's if not 1000's of applicants for a role, and so HR screen them before they even get to the hiring manager.

And whether HR screen via keyword search, AI CV reading, online tests, phone screens or AI interviews - it's always massively imperfect - as the HR recruiter doesn't have the expertise of the hiring manager.

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

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Post by randomNumber7 »

happyopossum wrote: post #169
notabee wrote: post #59

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The problem with this becoming the only reasonable tactic writ large is that it creates social bubbles just like social media. You wind up with very insular cultures and I think at least some of the hype addiction problems seen in tech can be attributed to these echo chambers. It's a hard problem to solve, especially now with LLMs being force amplifiers to low effort hiring and job seeking attempts. But to not solve…

I ah e not seen this play out in practice at all. In 25 years I’ve been at 8 tech companies, all of which came through connections. None of those have had an insular bubble - typically you know a few people, and they each have worked with a few others, but unless you go all “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon” on it, none of these jobs look like what you’re describing.

If you can't see the bubble you are inside of it.

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

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Post by dspillett »

dmitrygr wrote: post #129
plagiarist wrote: post #15

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Yeah this. I hate this planet. So many problems would go away if people could actually afford to make choices.

> So many problems would go away if Writing it like you did implies that a magical solution exists and we are all maliciously withholding it from you. It does not and we are not.

Writing that like that makes you sound like one of those “I didn't get help when I was younger so why should anyone else get help now?” types who highlight their own entitlement and luck by trying to frame others as entitled.

You might not be, but it sounds that way to me.

And if you think this knee-jerk reaction is unfair, let that be a lesson to you! :)

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

DrScientist wrote: post #313
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 not necessarily a reflection on the team you are going to be in. Large companies have the problem that they get 100's if not 1000's of applicants for a role, and so HR screen them before they even get to the hiring manager. And whether HR screen via keyword search, AI CV reading, online tests, phone screens or AI interviews - it's always massively imperfect - as the HR recruiter doesn't have the expertise of the…

That's assuming they open up a role for public applications, I think (assume, believe, etc) that these companies will have internal recruiters reaching out first before opening it to the public.

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

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Post by dspillett »

rvz wrote: post #54

The AGI utopia, even the recruiters have been replaced by AI. “Abundance” they told us.

True AI doing away with recruiters is something that I could live with. There are some groups of people I'd rather not interact with, and they are on that list! But dealing with glorified predictive text is worse than dealing with real recruiters.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #172
skeuomorphism wrote: post #95

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This is more or less the go-to standard in the usa. One property manager handles possibly hundreds in an association, or dozens of townhomes, and will refuse to speak to you directly, except through a maintenance request system. Its incredibly depressing

The electrical panel beeps an alarm constantly. Sent an email to the property management company. Guy comes over and presses a button to silence it for 24 hours. Rinse repeat for months on end. No method of escalation beyond the automatic replying inbox. I’m fine. twitch twitch Welcome to 21st century distopia!

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

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Post by yodsanklai »

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.

My manager is slowly being replaced by an AI. She's been asked to increase number of reports and start working on unrelated tasks, because presumably AI is making more productive at supporting the team.
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