Screenshot of a web-based AI job interview interface.
A pop-up titled “Quick note about AI usage” appears over the interview. It states that every response is checked for AI-generated content, that answers should be written from the applicant’s own experience and in the applicant’s own words, and that reviewers look at what a candidate did and how they did it rather than how polished the writing is. It adds that candidates who move to the next stage may be asked more about the examples given, so examples worth discussing should be chosen. A checkbox labeled “I’ll answer in my own words.” sits next to an OK button before the interview can continue.
Behind the dialog, the interview prompt asks for a specific example of working with others on a goal or project: what the person did to help and how everything was kept on plan, with the note that the example could come from home, work, school, a sporting team, or a community group. A tip at the bottom mentions that speech-to-text can be used to respond.
The juxtaposition of an AI-conducted interview warning against AI-generated answers is what the post highlights.
My brother was just telling me about this experience. He had to record himself answering questions so the AI can summarize for someone else. Then his human interview was with management lateral to him that were incredibly corpo pos. He didnt even get to the department team He was applying for. I dk how he kept going for this job. It felt like they kept disrespecting him as a person.
I dk how he kept going for this job. It felt like they kept disrespecting him as a person.
Job searching is literally one massive humiliation ritual. The whole process is tailored to make you happy about accepting a shit deal.
Sadly, I fear it is now too late to burn it all down. The only remaining option is to watch the world burn
hot take: LLM-attribution detection is the modern “we throw the bones in the air, and the gods tell us the future”
Man I’d love to see one of those. Can you ask questions during the AI interview? If so, you could probably burn a shitton of tokens and make it say weird things.
Be prepared for when you are hired, you are pushed to use AI as much as possible.
I despise the idea of a hiring process that treats the applicant as a supplicant. As a manager I once attended a training session on “Behaviour Based” interviewing. The approach itself - the idea of asking situational questions - had some merit, but the process they taught depending on keeping the applicant in the dark as much as possible and concentrated all the power in the hiring side.
To me the process needs to be two way. The applicant needs to know if the company, and the position itself will be a good fit for them. I can see an applicant asking the same kind of questions, “Can you describe how you would handle a situation where an employee behaved inappropriately to a female coworker?”. That kind of thing.
It’s beneficial to both sides. The applicant doesn’t want to land in a bad fit, and the hiring process is expensive and dealing with the vacancy has its own costs.
Taking the attitude that every applicant is simply wants to get the offer, and will lie and cheat to get it sets a bad tone right from the start, and the approach makes it difficult for the applicant to make an informed decision.
I realize that the OP example is the way that the world is going, but having an AI interview would just be a giant red flag for me. I would be tempted to just set an AI of my own to interact with the company’s AI directly and just sit back and watch.
I say, “would be”, because I’m retired, and will never have to deal with this BS. However, I hope that the people that I interviewed in the past appreciated the cooperative approach that I tried to take.
I have seen crazy videos of where people even in video interviews are using AI to live generate a script and reading that. Now some companies require you to share screen to avoid that but people will put their phone under the screen where the camera can’t see it instead. I think soon we will return to in person interviews.
