Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

Post by RajT88 » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 1:45 AM UTC

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Wild take lol, I was recently unemployed and once I started facing the very real possibility that I'd have to go work at the local sawmill (or UPS) for $20/hr I was willing to do almost any humiliation ritual these companies wanted... and be happy I at least had a shot instead of being ghosted again. I support the fight against this kind of thing, but I also think it's entirely hopeless: They have all the power in th…

> Wild take lol, I was recently unemployed and once I started facing the very real possibility that I'd have to go work at the local sawmill (or UPS) for $20/hr I was My hot take is that if you're an unemployed software dev now, it could last over a year easily, and it's way better to spend that time actually working at the sawmill or UPS if you're lucky enough to get those jobs. Work on your skills and selectively a…

Post by RajT88 » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 2:09 AM UTC

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

I’m not that surprised. To reach the level of billionaire, it’s pretty much a requirement that you abandon all empathy and ethics. What’s surprising is that nobody in their circle has educated them on the concept of a win-win. These people could be folk heros, universally loved and respected in ways buying a social media platform and banning all the haters will never accomplish.

Post by rz2k » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 2:27 AM UTC

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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.

Post by prewett » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 2:42 AM UTC

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I think “what is an interface” would trip me up actually, haha. My thought process was: Well, most of the code I use uses a Reverse Communication Interface. But, I think these are pretty old-school projects, maybe I should start by talking about the Object Oriented interface to the library that we recently did. Or maybe I can talk about the file IO based interface that I did, it was extremely cursed but kind of funny…

An interface is a layer of translation between two things. In Object oriented programming, it's a contract between two encapsulated modules: you define how one should be used, without exposing internals, and the other will have only this contract to manipulate the module. Otherwise, for a graphical interface, it's a translation between what the machine can do and what the human can see.

Post by steele » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 2:48 AM UTC