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I would have to be MUCH more desperate than I am to ever accept being interviewed by a damn machine… It’s even worse than those “record yourself answering these questions” bullshit. Nobody should work for a company that does not even respect them enough to talk to them

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acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
this happened to me a few months ago. applied for a job, got an invite to an AI interview along with instructions. emailed them back and said i found it disrespectful of my time as a candidate. I’m here investing my free time to see if the position is a good fit for bpth of us, so the least you can do is send one of your paid HR people to speak with me in person.

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- doctortofu@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Amen to that - way too many people forget that interviews are a two way street. You interview me, sure, but at the same time I am also interviewing you to see if the company is a good fit for me. Job seekers are not (or should not be) a bunch of starving orphans begging rich for job owners for scraps. Having a job means providing a service and being compensated for it, not total servitude…
  
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Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I genuinely don’t understand the point of candidate filters like this. Is it that corporate has drank the kool-aid, and think the job they are hiring for genuinely requires some 1-in-1000 skillset?

Every time, somebody says “yeah but they get thousands of applications a day, how could they possibly handle all that?!”

… Don’t. Just, filter them through some basic metrics, and then rank the ones that are left through a random number generator. Interview those candidates in order until you find a good fit.

The average job doesn’t benefit at all from hiring people who can specifically pass some bizarre reverse Turing test, and the average video interview should only cost you 15-30 minutes of (also underpaid) HR salary, which is certainly less than a contract with these AI vendors + the increased risk of discrimination lawsuits.

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- AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Is it that corporate has drank the ~~kool-aid~~…
  
  *Flavor Aid
  
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  - markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I don’t understand why some people are so obsessed with this and why they make comments like this. Like what’s the point? To be smug and act like you’re better because you know that it wasn’t actually Kool-Aid used in Jonestown? Do you think it’s actually a public service? Do you have some vested interest in Kool-Aid and feel the need to defend their good name? Let me let you in on a little secret- most people know it wasn’t actually Kool-Aid but was a competitor’s product. However, it doesn’t fucking matter because that’s not the saying. If you say “Oh Jim isn’t using toothpaste because he drank the flavor aid and thinks fluoride is government mind control” the person you’re talking to will just look at you weird. It’s like getting pissed off at someone saying “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” by saying “uhuh well actshually the birds have the same monetary value regardless of whether they are located in a bush or in someone’s hand I am very smart”
    
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    AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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- Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Lmao. Your suggestion for they can’t handle to many applicants is to…just handle it.
  
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  - Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    … No? My whole point is that they don’t need to process and assess every last applicant with things like the AI in this post. If - through the process I just described - they only actually assess 50 randomly selected applicants out of the 1000 when they find a good one, there’s nothing wrong with that. Send an automated rejection to the other 950 and move on.
    
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    Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You’ve never hired anyone have ya. So you’d pass up a PhD in favor of a random just because he didn’t make it the random 50.
    
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idriss@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I almost took such interviews 2 weeks ago. Applied, they said press link to continue, interview started with an animated human asking me questions. I dropped out instantly, I would rather trade shitcoins then go through this humiliation.

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