However I am an (ostensibly) privileged software engineer. This article says that this will be used for the holiday rush. Contract/warehouse workers are often the most oppressed working class. It’s sad that this can be forced upon them.
I like the idea of being able to do interview calls at 8pm, but I'm scared they will just spam these to everyone and I'll spend countless evenings "interviewing" for jobs I'll never get instead of meeting with people I care about.
If you're profit seeking company with no regard to the negative social externalities of your actions, why not just send out AI interviews to everyone the way some tech companies send leetcodes to everyone today? They could even build some feature to make the AI interviewer try to extract as much market information and good ideas out of you as possible and feed that data into their internal AI product ideation engine. You have to pay ball or else you don't get the job. (Btw if you pass the interview you have a 0.1% chance of being hired)
If I ever got an AI interviewer at a company I was interested in working for long term, it would be dead on arrival. Interviewing is a two way street. Candidates glean info about their possible teammates and work experience from the interviewer, just like the interviewer gets a read on the candidate.
Also if I am having someone join my team, I’d want to get to know them first. I’m sure the goal isn’t to have this replace every interview panel but it feels icky to me outside of a seasonal job.
From everything I’ve heard about working in Amazon warehouses, getting interviewed by a faceless robot is probably giving an accurate impression of the work culture. Even for a seasonal job it feels disrespectful to the candidates.
...I kind of think this is an improvement for a lot of cold applicants. HR talent acquisition teams can be terrible, and I surmise many would take their chances.
LLMs have been a game changer for me - allowing me to attempt the craziest and most hard things I could ever imagine and loving every minute of it (eg. making any Windows Forms application run on Linux/macOS, rewriting TradingView charts into a cross-platform wgpu backed native charting library lol).
(Actually, my great-grandfather was a coal miner in Tennessee. They also found ways to make the labor process humane)
That’s just embarrassing.