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

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Post by shanjai_raj7 »

nirava wrote: post #303
shanjai_raj7 wrote: post #294

I build AI agents and honestly the problem here is not that it was an AI doing the interview. The problem is the company did not care enough to make the experience good. A well built agent can ask better questions than a bad human interviewer. This just sounds like low effort from the company side.

> did not care enough to make the experience good Part of that good experience is talking to a genuine human

thats a fair point. I think my reaction was more about the company not trying, not really about the AI itself. but yeah if you are meeting your potential employer for the first time a real person just sets a different tone. hard to argue with that.

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

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Post by koliber »

SoftTalker wrote: post #465
koliber wrote: post #455

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That's why a screening is needed. If people lie, it won't make me lower my standards. I'm dealing with this all the time in recruitment. It can be done. People lie all the time or don't read the requirements. You need a way for the ones who really do know how to do the thing you need to demonstrate it to you. Have you ever been in a situation where you had to hire someone to help you with something? Would you really…

Fortunately whenever I have been involved in hiring, it was someone we knew was qualified or had references from people we trusted. Years ago, I hired people at closer to entry level. If they had experience that was a bonus but if they didn't we trained them. If they didn't respond to the training, they were let go after a probationary period.

Yeah, hiring at entry level is great, because there are so many things that you don't need to check. It's WYSYWIG - what you see is what you get.

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

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Post by DANmode »

wholinator2 wrote: post #374
egeozcan wrote: post #367

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There should be a unit of dystopia called Kafka, these days. Renting an apartment from a management company should be like 3-4 Kafkas. Go from there.

Yes oh my god. I'm trying to rent right now and the application has me doing this fucking approveshield bullshit where they request every document you've ever had and direct access to your bank account before they'll approve that I'm not a criminal or liar. Whatever happened to bank statements?! Why does some random company need to know that my closest grocery store is kroger and i went to miniso for my girlfriend bi…

What region is this in?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ohyoutravel wrote: post #408
makingstuffs wrote: post #192

> The creators of these AI tools say the benefit is that it allows companies to hear from virtually everyone who applies for a certain role instead of just a small subset If the LLM conducted the interview on your behalf you did not ‘hear from’ them. The LLM did. Companies should just be honest and say the reality: we want to lower our payroll bill and this allows us to have less people working on recruitment for the…

Yeah I tend to agree. Dystopian. But, when I open a SWE JD, I get about 800 applications. Stack ranking those maybe 100 seem pretty qualified, and 20 seem really qualified and is all I have time for with 30 min hiring manager screens. As I start going down the list, each applicant is probably subjectively worse and worse, but I bet there are lots of candidates I would love and are largely fungible from a skill set pe…

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Post by happymellon »

nradov wrote: post #471
jacquesm wrote: post #462

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I don't know what you're trying to achieve with your endless stream of 'but' 'but', but in general if there is a problem you find the right door to escalate and you keep bugging them until they fix things. Resetting an alarm is going to look 'real good' if at some point the place burns down and for sure the building is insured somewhere and for sure that information is something you could dig up. If there is no unit…

What a weird comment. I don't know what you're trying to achieve with your endless stream of useless suggestions but @arctic-true stated above that they're an apartment tenant.

@anothergoodname was the one with a problem.

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Post by mlrtime »

projektfu wrote: post #141
WarmWash wrote: post #131

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The problem with erasing biases is that you cannot look at any statistics. The internet and training set can be free of any form of -ism, and the models would still be expected to have biases. In fact it's something desirable, because statistical inferences are a valuable tool. The AI won't care if some people get upset because it consistently recommends you get Mexican food instead of Italian when you're visiting so…

I didn't find much in East Texas. Is South Texas much better?

Houston is South Texas and is known to be one the best/most diverse food diverse cities in America.

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

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Post by wiseleo »

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!

I'd invite a fire marshal into that discussion. They'll know whom to call if it's not their purview, but electrical panels tend to be a fire risk.

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

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Post by xboxnolifes »

emulatedmedia wrote: post #390
toofy wrote: post #382

reading through the comments, how would a company respond if you had a bot do your job interview in your place? or do your rent applications? they wouldn’t accept it. growing up, my first job as a teenager at a restaurant that had ridiculous uniforms, i lasted about two months. i realized it irritated me that the owner would hang out at the restaurant in street clothes but expected us to look like little dancing monk…

I mean, we are already using AI to do our job, so I don't see any problem here. HR can use AI to do interviews and developers can use AI to write 90% of the code. Sounds fair

I agree. I'll let AI attend the interview.
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