So Today I Was Interviewed By A Robot

[Prince.Skeletor]

I want to get into AI & IOT, so I got an interview with one of the leaders in IOT & smart cities & smart buildings.

So I had my first interview with the company's recruiter, then took a 1hr personality test & finally I was interviewed by a robot.

It was a video interview so I had my webcam on & was told to dress like it was an in person interview.

The email I got gave me instructions on how interact with the bot & the benefits of a bot interview over a real person recruiter.
Like you have 48 hours to do the interview so at your schedule not the company's.

All candidates receive the same set of questions reviwed by the same team so you will have the same experience and exposure as every other candidate.
Also it said that digital interviews allow you to personalize your story & experience more than a regular interview could.

Anyhow it was quite an experience.

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[hashmander]

people won't even know what hit them.

 

[Meta Reign]

Yikes.

 

[kuts]

I actually don't see any benefit to being interviewed by a bot. If anything, it'll ruin the interview process.

 

[Isaiah Bradley]

I wonder if they used a robot because it's a tech company("oh look what we could do") OR because it help solve a problem they were constantly facing?
so HR will lose another function that wasn't either outsourced or absorbed by an office manager

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

I wonder if they used a robot because it's a tech company("oh look what we could do") OR because it help solve a problem they were constantly facing?
so HR will lose another function that wasn't either outsourced or absorbed by an office manager

No but think about it.
For a techie job you cant expect a recruiter to be technical.
Also for any job you cant expect a recruiter to be well versed in any domain except recruitment.

So maybe a bot for programming, another bot for marketing, another for engineering etc....

 

[Isaiah Bradley]

No but think about it.
For a techie job you cant expect a recruiter to be technical.
Also for any job you cant expect a recruiter to be well versed in any domain except recruitment.

So maybe a bot for programming, another bot for marketing, another for engineering etc....

...thus why multi interview process exist. It involves specific people to measure certain qualities in candidates
To use multi robots for the same measurement is what I'm not understanding....I guess "interview at your leisure" will be the new sleep pods/snack bar recruitment tool

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I actually don't see any benefit to being interviewed by a bot. If anything, it'll ruin the interview process.

depends on if the bot's analysis is taken vs. people watching the interview and evaluating it. humans have so much implicit bias that seeps into hiring, that in the early days of AI powered interviews, this could even the playing field, especially for minorities and women. that said, it has been shown that the more AI learns, the more human biases it picks up, so eventually we're back at square one.

anyway, that's kind of a dope interview given the industry OP is interviewing for, that definitely would be jarring anywhere else tho.

 

[the cac mamba]

I wonder if they used a robot because it's a tech company("oh look what we could do") OR because it help solve a problem they were constantly facing?
so HR will lose another function that wasn't either outsourced or absorbed by an office manager

not the worst thing in the world

someone on here said that HR only exists to give women jobs

 

[hashmander]

depends on if the bot's analysis is taken vs. people watching the interview and evaluating it. humans have so much implicit bias that seeps into hiring, that in the early days of AI powered interviews, this could even the playing field, especially for minorities and women. that said, it has been shown that the more AI learns, the more human biases it picks up, so eventually we're back at square one.

anyway, that's kind of a dope interview given the industry OP is interviewing for, that definitely would be jarring anywhere else tho.

and depending on how biased (very) the programmers are the AI could be biased out of the gate. forget learning , he might as well be designed with a face.

 

[invincible1914]

I want to get into AI & IOT, so I got an interview with one of the leaders in IOT & smart cities & smart buildings.

So I had my first interview with the company's recruiter, then took a 1hr personality test & finally I was interviewed by a robot.

It was a video interview so I had my webcam on & was told to dress like it was an in person interview.

The email I got gave me instructions on how interact with the bot & the benefits of a bot interview over a real person recruiter.
Like you have 48 hours to do the interview so at your schedule not the company's.

All candidates receive the same set of questions reviwed by the same team so you will have the same experience and exposure as every other candidate.
Also it said that digital interviews allow you to personalize your story & experience more than a regular interview could.

Anyhow it was quite an experience.

You gonna be a foot soldier for Skynet

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Get it interigated for 48 hours by a beep boop boop, brehs.

 

[jerniebert]

Andrew Yang is on to something about Robots taking over everything.

 

[DEAD7]

Cool.