I Automated My Job Application Process

Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by vunderba on Saturday December 28, 2024 @12:58PM (#42532903)

With automated hiring spam and our industry's tenuous grasp of basic integrity with actual HN posts proudly boasting of their apps to help you cheat during interviews using LLMs, several of my friends who assist in hiring at their companies have already returned to "on site" interviews to cut down on the proverbial chaff.

The kicker? These are 100% remote jobs - the interviews are being performed at shared workspaces. That's the world we live in now.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by nsxwolf on Saturday December 28, 2024 @01:45PM (#42533363)

I’d be absolutely fine going in person to interview for a remote job if I thought I had any reasonable chance of success with your process. We are talking about where I’m going to be working for at least the next few years. That’s kind of a big deal.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by Terr_ on Saturday December 28, 2024 @03:57PM (#42534662)

Yeah, it's not about the in-person trip, it's about the trip multiplied by the probability that your application will be seriously considered as a near finalist.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by vunderba on Saturday December 28, 2024 @04:21PM (#42534862)

Yeah I get that. My friends (the hiring managers) are in relatively large tech hubs (Austin and Seattle), so from what I understand 90% of the applicants have been "locally sourced". It'd be another story entirely if you had to travel a significant distance just for an interview.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by salomon812 on Saturday December 28, 2024 @03:05PM (#42534115)

> The kicker? These are 100% remote jobs - the interviews are being performed at shared workspaces. That's the world we live in now.

Nah, if I was running a 100% remote job company ten years ago before all of this, I would still absolutely want to meet each of my hires in person before inking a deal. Maybe I'm old-school but I've been very successful and lucky with hiring.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by Der_Einzige on Saturday December 28, 2024 @01:25PM (#42533165)

Thinking that "in person" will stop or prevent cheating is laughable.

For god-sakes, the chess world is freaking out over an ANAL BEADS cheating scandal! https://kotaku.com/chess-champion-anal-bead-magnus-carlsen-h...

https://github.com/RonSijm/ButtFish

A candidate who wants that job will figure out some way to have ChatGPT help them in a way you can't detect, even if it also has an impact on their ass health.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by dustyventure on Saturday December 28, 2024 @01:35PM (#42533276)

If you are dumb enough not to hire someone who is able to integrate ChatGPT from analbeads into a conversation while looking natural then that is on you.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by HarHarVeryFunny on Saturday December 28, 2024 @01:37PM (#42533288)

As long as the interviewee also reports to work with their anal AI interface, what's the problem ?

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by godelski on Saturday December 28, 2024 @01:49PM (#42533400)

You're right, you can't ever stop cheating. That's not the point. The point is to make it harder & more expensive. To make it not worth it.

Your comment is like "why use AES256? People can still brute force it." Sure... good luck

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by archagon on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:29PM (#42537523)

> with actual HN posts proudly boasting of their apps to help you cheat during interviews using LLMs

I mean, I don't disagree emotionally, but this is a lot closer in spirit to what the OG hackers did than most of the stuff you see on the front page.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by vunderba on Sunday December 29, 2024 @02:56AM (#42538414)

I mean.... IMHO self titled "solopreneurs" throwing together a for-profit web app that runs in the background to feed an applicant answers from ChatGPT just so they can cheat en masse on an exam feels like a far cry from old school phreakers building blue boxes in their basement to stick it to Ma Bell.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/capn-crunch-whistle

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by directevolve on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:40AM (#42538588)

The next logical step is for exam proctoring facilities to begin offering interview and resume proctoring services.

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