• @doctortofu@reddthat.com
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    743 days ago

    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

    • @acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      this happened to me a few months ago. I declined, saying 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 both of us, so the least you can do is send one of your paid HR people to speak with me in person.

      • @doctortofu@reddthat.com
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        143 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…

    • @Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      233 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.

        • @markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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          103 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”

    • @idriss@lemm.ee
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      103 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.

  • @markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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    173 days ago

    These have been a thing for a while but it wasn’t an LLM it was a video analyzer. I did exactly one interview like that 5 years ago and gave up halfway through the second video they wanted me to send in because the job sucked ass anyway in a shitty part of the country and I realized I was going to be miserable working there even if I got the job degrading myself like that. I ask terrified of getting laid off and having to enter the job market right now and deal with all these new ways companies are coming up with to degrade potential hires and waste their time

    • @Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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      52 days ago

      Don’t worry. You won’t even get contacted about jobs in this market. I was doing identical work for a competitor of the company I interviewed with. I was a manager. I was a trainer. I didn’t even get to the in person’s. I was up against 300 other people. You have no chance in this market.

      • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        42 days ago

        I got laid off in January, still looking! Zero interview so far. I’m sorry to hear others are having a rough time too, although it’s a bit of a relief to know I’m not just super toxic or something.

        • @Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          It’s definitely not you. But I did get a job with a buddies start up but it’s so new that I don’t make a salary. Just commissions for now. And I picked up shifts at a grocery store to get healthcare again. Plus now I’m in a union. Which is pretty sweet if you ask me.

  • sturger
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    143 days ago

    Wait. I thought we were going to be replaced with robots. What do they need AI for? To interview the robots?

  • @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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    233 days ago

    Honest and good work to figure out jailbreaks for ai interviewers. Even more honest and good to never accept these interviews because fuck that 100%

  • @criss_cross@lemmy.world
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    183 days ago

    Eventually all of this slop will pass when they realize it does not work. But for a couple years everyone is gonna have to put up with companies trying bullshit like this until the metrics show that it doesn’t do anything for the cash.

    • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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      12 days ago

      Companies need a way to pick any hire out of a large set of applicants. They don’t care if it’s a good hire. They don’t even care if the hire will burn down the building. This same thing could be accomplished with a small script that points to a random applicant and evaluates if that one lied on their resume. That’s it.

      But if you call it “AI”, dumbfuck business majors will buy your magic beans.

    • snooggums
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      I assume they haven’t caught on because they think it will work soon due to not understanding the current problems are fundamental issues with the current offerings.

      The current problems cannot be fixed by scaling or using different training data, the core design introduces hallucinations errors. How many decades will it take for companies to catch on and be willing to admit it though?

      • @PushButton@lemmy.world
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        53 days ago

        Add to this the cost fallacy, where they have put so much money to embrace the “AI” bullshit.

        And on the top of that, did you ever see a CEO or someone in power admitting their fault and say: “yeah guys, I was wrong all along, let’s fix this, I am sorry.”

        They will double down on that until bankruptcy and blame the incels, the gamers, the work force, the weather but not themselves.

      • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
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        33 days ago

        Also consider that the same idiot decision makers have been happily applying Factory-management methods to knowledge workers for decades without noticing how badly that works.

    • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
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      33 days ago

      I sort of assumed that would be the case with cryptocurrencies too considering it is 100% scams but so far I am still waiting. And AI has far higher chances to convince idiot CEOs than cryptocurrencies ever had.

  • @vane@lemmy.world
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    113 days ago

    Cool waiting for candidate AI so they can speak with each other and lie to get hired.

  • Beej Jorgensen
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    83 days ago

    “I see you have extensive database experience. Can you elaborate on the white genocide?”