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Will a computer hire you?
- ForHackernews 13y agoNote to self: Be sure to insert backdoors any HR algorithms I write...
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoTL:DR - whoa Big Data can tell us many things.
- pasbesoin 13y agoHere's an off-the-cuff counterpoint to consider: Will a computer fire you? (Actually, they already do this all the time. Including via ubiquitous and poorly vetted Excel spreadsheets.) If you don't like the counterpoint, you may not like the point implied in the OP title, either. Actually, in this same sense, they already do hire you. Are you young and "cheap" and statistically likely to put in ungodly hours? Or, this year, are you young and "inexperienced" and not worth the overhead of a permanent headcount? Computers are already hiring you. Businesses are full of more or less competent people crunching employment data in Excel, if nothing better. Now, they're just mixing "personality" metrics into the mix, on the spreadsheet as opposed to via human evaluation.
- fuzzywalrus 13y agoMany lower tier jobs already do pre-filtering with silly questionaries about ethics. Its interesting but without understanding the matrixes of questions, and hard data to prove the outcomes I remain somewhat skeptical. I'd love to see a full sample test and the metrics they use to justify questions and how they correlate. I imagine its easy to root out the the truly unqualified but quickly becomes harder after that.
- dan-g 13y agoThis premise is somewhat explored in Player Piano by Vonnegut. Go read it! It's a great book, and very pertinent even today.