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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
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.
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...
Lmao. Your suggestion for they can't handle to many applicants is to...just handle it.
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.
So again we're back to " just handle it" you people don't seem to realize there are thousands of people around the world who spend their entire life coming up with different ways to "handle it" and you think your little five minute thought is just so profound that no one has ever considered it.
And they hired people before phones and shoes and lots of other things. You all sound like the Amish. Just picking a random time period and saying "nope this is good enough". No it's the people I'm here suggesting they filter out qualified people by just randomly selecting people out of a pool to hire.
*Flavor Aid
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"
Kool Aid is the brand name that ended up generic in meaning, like Scotch tape and bandaid.
I bet you call it the “Spanish Flu” too.
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.