Skip AI only interviews, blacklist firms that use them. Opaque algorithms will reject you for race, gender, age, then will give you zero feedback. It shows a signal of a “people are costs” culture a la Amazon. Your data becomes their training set. Video, voice, and text will be stored indefinitely and reused, with flimsy privacy safeguards.
Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
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My rule for interviews is the company has to spend equal human time or I decline. This means no 8 hour tests, no talking to computers, no special little projects for me to evaluate me. You get equal face time and no more than 45 minutes of me doing anything by myself (that's the max leeway). If you want me to do anything else either I'm getting paid short term contractor rates or making you make a sizable donation to…
What you are saying resonates deeply with me. I flipped the logic with a thought experiment. As a job seeker you send your resume to the black hole of a company's recruiting department. That's your only input which can be frustrating because it is difficult to express your abilities in static text. What if instead the company offered you the opportunity to spend 30 minutes with an automated system where you could pro…
>the opportunity to spend 30 minutes with an automated system where you could provide more information and demonstrate your skills.
I'm positive that a system like this would be flooded with awful candidates of the "I have 12 certifications but can't keep up in a basic technical discussion" type.
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Somehow i would rather stay homeless or prostitute myself than throwing my dignity away by letting an a.i. assess me over the whole job interview. Yet this is where we are heading. Being graded by openai (and co). Iris scanned by openai. Who knows what comes next..
It's where we're headed _if we let these assholes get away with it_. They have the money and guns, but we have the numbers.
Huh what ? You have the same weapons here, you can simply use AI to interview for you on your behalf
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$20 a month for a nearly unlimited stream of high intelligence isn’t really undemocratic imo
To call GPT-4o high intelligence, is aspirational (to put it more plainly: GPT-4o is such a bad model it's not worth paying for compared to what's out there). And yes, it is undemocratic - when was the last time you got a say over what the AI is allowed to do for you, let alone a say over any of the ideas for how to improve it?
$20 buys you o3 access. I have not run into limits for personal or professional information or research purposes. I am sure you can.
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#355I don't see an issue with this if it means interviews are more common. The complaint here seems to come from a misunderstanding similar to the complaint about technical interviews.
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> Please give me an example of what happens. It’s easy to forget after 80 years of stable western democracies, but brutal equilibrium shifts do happen. There was a revolution every ~20 years in Europe between 1789 and 1917. And even during the 20th century, the history of much of the world is full of coups, revolts, and uprisings. See all the revolutions in ex-soviet republics, the Arab spring, etc. So you can pick a…
Modern police and military gear is so advanced that revolution is unrealistic.
Maybe. But a modern revolution also doesn’t need physical violence.
People in power only have power in so far as others believe and enforce it. The emperor has no clothes.
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#357I did one of these once. Once . I felt so bad afterwards that I swore them off forever. It's not like the 'interview' was terrible or anything. I knew it was AI from the start. It was just that when I got done with it, I realized that I had talked at a computer for ~45 minutes. And, yet again, I was going to be ghosted by the company (I was), and that I was never going to get those 45 minutes back. That was time I co…
Somehow i would rather stay homeless or prostitute myself than throwing my dignity away by letting an a.i. assess me over the whole job interview. Yet this is where we are heading. Being graded by openai (and co). Iris scanned by openai. Who knows what comes next..
I have found most interviews to be such undignified and humiliating theater already that this will barely make a difference. That said, if my experiences with regular interviews had been better, an AI interviewer may well be a reason to walk away.
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#358Take this entire paragraph and read carefully, and it explains how to kill this trend: > “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. “If there were a large portion of the job-seeking community that were wholesale rejecting this, our clients wouldn’t find the tool useful… This thing would…
Most job seekers don't have the luxury of choice.
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's where we're headed _if we let these assholes get away with it_. They have the money and guns, but we have the numbers.
Huh what ? You have the same weapons here, you can simply use AI to interview for you on your behalf
That strategy wins the battle but loses the war.
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#360I’m not job seeking but someone emailed to offer an allegedly lucrative side gig working with some unspecified top AI lab to help them train their coding models. I thought what the hell. Uploaded CV, was immediately thrown into an AI interview (and asking for camera access). Quickly closed the browser tab and blackholed that company’s email domain. Hands down the most disrespectful thing I’ve faced in my career.
Off topic, but what is your process for blocking the entire domain in email? I want to start doing something similar.