Do not miss the video in the article. Horrific.

https://youtu.be/mtIUQhb2h3A?is=0uwTOJdsHmCq69Ai

The obvious solution is to use "AI" to do these interviews for you. If the company doesn't want a human to represent them, why should the candidate?

I can see how "AI" applications can be annoying for companies as well, but this knife cuts both ways. An interview is a meeting to determine if there's mutual interest, not a one-sided conversation.

I remember ThePrimeagen tackling this topic a year ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLx2q-UnH6M

This seems minor compared to the take home problem bs that people have to endure on the off chance that they might be offered a job.

So if they use an AI avatar so can you.

This would take the dodgy fake jobs/"pipeline building" to a whole new unethical level.

Not only do they have the resume and a cover letter that took time, but they also wasted your time on a fake interview with a bot. All without disclosing anything.

If they can't even be bothered to interview and do the due diligence themselves, perhaps they can just hire an AI bot to do the job as well, and add more AI slop to their work

The AGI utopia, even the recruiters have been replaced by AI.

“Abundance” they told us.

If it was a phone call would you know for sure if it wasn't disclosed? I won't do pre-recorded videos and I won't knowingly interview with an AI ... I don't think, but maybe they'd have more clues about the difference between java and javascript, compatible skillsets for competing technologies etc.