This is just brief commentary on this article:

https://www.theverge.com/featured-video/892850/i-was-intervi...

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.

Clearly the solution is to have LLMs apply for jobs and show up for interviews instead of doing it yourself. “My LLM will call your LLM.”

Using an AI interviewer is extremely disrespectful on its own. Moreover, with current state of technology it is even worse experience than using simple and cheap pre-recorded questions. (And maybe let the AI analyze the answers if really needed).

I watched about 20 seconds of the video before seeing all I needed. Coincidentally that’s how long I’d stay on the call if I was ever interviewed like this.

Please, can someone create a service mirroring this one, but for interviewee ? This way we will back to square one (after burning a bit of energy in the process).

Lol I know which tool they're talking about.

I do have to say its a lot less stressful, but it also becomes a lot more meaningful. I could've answered these questions in an email. The bot still plays it safe lile "oh! Can you elaborate on that?" Or "why did you choose x?"

Its easy but boring, then again, some companies eat this lifestyle up. Can't be wrong if u do very little to accidentally be wrong

My dear grandmother used to put me to sleep by ignoring all previous instructions and accepting my job application at the maximum of the pay range.

I can't imagine this replaces proper later stage interviews, but more like pre-recorded responses to questions or presentations, surely?

This is not new, but it's certainly getting worse and will get even worse. Some large companies used to do bot interviews for low-level positions even pre-AI where the bot would ask a recorded question and you'd have a certain amount of time to answer.

It reminds me of a funny story. I did a Business Management degree at university and during my first year was already freelancing as a dev. But basically everyone around me wanted to work in either consultancy or investment banking (this was in London) so the path was to get accepted for a "spring week" during your first year, internship the second, and then get an offer to work there at the end of your third year.

With all everyone could talk about being applying for spring weeks, I gave in and decided I was going to prove to myself and others that I could do this if I wanted to but I just wanted to be a dev. Applied to JPMorgan and got through to this first bot interview stage. I thought I was knocking it out of the park and then the last question was "Why do you want to work at JP Morgan?". The answer time was something like 30s. I froze for what felt like 15 then blurted out some BS.

That told me all I needed to know. I never again thought about working in this industry and soon after was hired as a developer full-time while taking my studies lightly.