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Probably the most inhumane thing ever is having to make a recorded video of yourself answering personal life questions (presumably to be reviewed by a human fro
by peterhadlaw 3y ago
Probably the most inhumane thing ever is having to make a recorded video of yourself answering personal life questions (presumably to be reviewed by a human from HR) only to actually be processed by an algorithm.
- airstrike 3y agoIt's straight up dystopian.
- cutler 3y agoAll hail our new AI overlords. "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss".
- ryandrake 3y agoSEO for resumes has been a thing for at least a decade. It’s dystopian and dehumanizing. You can only imagine how bad it is going to get when AI gets to screen, interview, and hire; totally autonomously. I’m sure companies are begging for this: cutting their entire recruiting budget would surely return at least 0.01% to the almighty shareholders.
- richrichie 3y agoThis has been the case since professional HR came into being in tech, and people (mainly women) with no domain background were given a major role to play in shortlisting candidates.
- bzhang255 3y agoThe gender comment feels unnecessary.
- richrichie 3y agoAn empirical fact though.
- bluedino 3y agoHow about "Dont send us a resume! We aren't a traditional company. Make a crazy video showing us your personality and why you'd be the best person for the job. Costumes are a bonus."
- brysonreece 3y agoThere’s a Black Mirror episode somewhere in here akin to the Hunger Games.
- zer00eyz 3y agoI mean, peddling the bike to keep your vim session going might be good for many of us. Well, at least me.
- zingababba 3y agoPeddling to keep it closed more like.
- throwaway74432 3y agoIt doesn't end at hiring. At one place I worked, the CEO got new hires in a room and "spontaneously" asked them to tell an embarrassing story about themselves one by one, to break the ice. People were very uncomfortable but did it. Nobody was having fun, it was pretty cringe. Then it was the CEO's turn (she went last), and she told the most flattering "embarrassing" you could imagine, which was basically just a huge flex about her life and opportunities. Some company leaders just like to humiliate the people who work for them because they can.
- datavirtue 3y ago[flagged]
- sys_64738 3y agoI’ve been in such a situation but I don’t do group stupid so got up and left.
- ClimaxGravely 3y agoIs that really a thing happening these days? Sounds horrible.
- ZoomerCretin 3y agoOh, it's been happening since 2020. I was offered a few of these HireVues, but I could never finish any because the experience of speaking to a screen like it's a person is so dehumanizing. I believe one of them was from General Motors.
- ClimaxGravely 3y agoWow, it's easy for me to say in my current situation but I think if I had to do that I would start considering another line of work.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoIf they'll dehumanize you in the hiring process, what would it be like to work there?