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Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by gwbas1c »

jghn wrote: post #102

From both sides of the table, I have a strict philosophy that the candidate's time is the more valuable commodity. Thus in any situation where a company is offloading internal effort but still requiring the candidate to put in time & effort, that's a company I would not want to work for. This is the ultimate expression of that bullcrap.

> Still, stretched-thin HR teams say it’s the only way to handle thousands of applicants.

I get the impression this is because it's too easy for candidates to apply for a job. I wonder if there is a way to put pressure on job seekers to be more selective about where they apply? (Or otherwise for a company to allow a candidate that's only applied to a handful of jobs to skip the AI?)

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Post by naet »

codingdave wrote: post #326

Take 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…

If you need a job in a tough job market you can't really afford to be picky about the opportunities. If I need a job I'm willing to put up with just about anything to get it, because the alternative is potential financial ruin for my family in a country with weak social safety nets.

The last entry level job my company posted got over two thousand applicants in less than 24 hours before they paused submissions. I don't think an AI video screen is the answer to that, but it's clearly too many applicants for one open position. And we could have had tons more if we didn't aggressively shut it off early to prevent it from building up too much. It sucks for the candidate because they spend time on an application that might never even be seen much less given a fair consideration, and it isn't ideal for the company either because they need to spend a lot more time and effort filtering through the pile to find the right people.

From a company perspective, the AI interviews don't even have to work well, they just have to get that massive number down to something vaguely manageable.

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Post by simianparrot »

mystraline wrote: post #373
Workaccount2 wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having recently come off a micro-binge of the rise of USSR and it's history, the common theme in keeping a state communist through change of leadership is "The system works great, they just didn't know how to run it properly." Then they also proceeded to just continue the devastation. The fundamental problem of communism is that everyone needs to play along, but the rewards for not playing along grow as more people d…

Chinese socialism is interesting and I think works quite well. Absolutely new stuff is basically unrestricted. Go build, have fun, make money. Intermediate stuff is partially state controlled, including cost, profits, pollution, and more. Essentials are effectively state owned, cost controlled, and 'very stable'. Also, the USSR was the first time it was tried. It succeeded some ways, but failed in others.

At the cost of the majority in rural areas living so far below what any modern country considers poverty that it’s hard to articulate.

But sure. If you’re in Shenzhen or Shanghai it works «great». Until you step out of line ever so slightly.

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Post by Daniel_Van_Zant »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #172
Balgair wrote: post #89

I 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…

The key is skin in the game. If a human interviews me, if they're wasting my time, they're also wasting their own. So they have some incentive not to do that. But if an AI interviews me, the humans have no incentive not to waste my time. You want to have an AI interview me? No. It can interview my AI agent if you want, but not me . You want to interview me? Put a human on the line.

Honestly having an AI agent that interviews a interviewees agent sounds like a great "first filter" for certain tech jobs if you do it right. As in "here are the api specs, build an agent that can receive questions and reply with information based on your Resume." Would be vibe-codeable by anyone with skills in an hour. I remember seeing a company a while back that switched to only accepting Resumes through a weirdly formatted API and they said it cut down on irrelevant spam for software jobs immensely.

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Post by immibis »

kergonath wrote: post #219
shermantanktop wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It surprises me that the monied elite seem to have so little awareness of what happens when they keep winning.

What is even more infuriating is that they can keep winning. They just have to stop being arseholes about it and pay lip service to wealth redistribution and social progress. It’s their winner-takes-all fuck-you-got-mine mentality that is pouring fuel on the fire

Evidence says they can keep winning without being nice. I trust evidence.

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Post by immibis »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #283
simianparrot wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's something only people of privilege in countries that never experienced what the sickle and hammer does to its people.

Having recently come off a micro-binge of the rise of USSR and it's history, the common theme in keeping a state communist through change of leadership is "The system works great, they just didn't know how to run it properly." Then they also proceeded to just continue the devastation. The fundamental problem of communism is that everyone needs to play along, but the rewards for not playing along grow as more people d…

> The fundamental problem of ____ is that everyone needs to play along, but the rewards for not playing along grow as more people do play along.

Reminds me of capitalism.

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Post by gloryjulio »

elAhmo wrote: post #467
akudha wrote: post #422

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd hate being interviewed by a bot. Talking to these stupid automated answering machines is bad enough. That said, the other side of the equation is also bad, for employers. I was asked to conduct some interviews recently. I asked the most basic of questions (like absolutely basic stuff, "what is an interface?" level basic). The number of people who said "I don't know" is far less than the number of people who tried…

Those people should be filtered by CV screening, maybe some sort of email exchange before with a few questions to answer to 'ensure' human wants to invest some time in the interview process, rather than just spray and pray.

Isn't that the 1st phone round? Most such people would not pass the technical portion of the phone call
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