Have you ever experienced an interview with AI? Today, I had a unique encounter with HireVue, an online assessment tool used by a national grocery chain! What exactly happens during this high-tech interview process? Let’s break it down for you:
### Preparing for the Interview
– Wear a suit (no tie required)
– No headphones allowed
– Ensure decent volume and lighting
– Sit in a quiet area
### The Interview Process
– Answer 5 questions within 3 minutes each
– Use the Situation, Task, Action, and Result method
– Maintain eye contact with the camera
– Speak naturally as if talking to a human
– Your expressions and eye movements are assessed
– No chance to redo your answers
### Additional Challenges
– Games to test memory and cognitive skills
– Input numbers and letters backward
– Identify complex shapes with patterns
### What Happens Next?
– Your score determines if human managers review your answers
– Potential further interviews with the hiring team
Overall, this modern interviewing technique can be quite challenging and unconventional. Have you ever faced a similar situation? Share your experiences below! #AIInterview #HireVue #GroceryChainInterview #ChallengingInterviews
The moment I see a one-way interview or anything like that, I rescind my application. I refuse to jump through those hoops because I am a human being, and I WILL be treated as such. Anything automated like that tells me they’ve removed all humanity from the job.
> If your eye strays away from the camera too much or for too long, your score will plummet because it’s been programmed to assume this action is the result of reading responses from printed cards or devices in the testers vicinity.
So just like… immediate illegal discrimination against autistic people. Cool…
As an autistic person in the workforce, if this becomes mainstream I’ll never work again.
> After the 5 questions are asked I was given two games to play. The first game showed me a series of numbers and letters, which I had to memorize and punch in a digital keypad. They got harder and harder until they asked me to input the displayed numbers and letters BACKWARDS. As it got harder, I started to mess up.
This is part of an IQ test.
Source: My autism diagnosis. There are usually more parts though.
Do you want to work for the matrix, because this is how you work for the matrix
I refuse to do that.
Cool, cool, way to weed out applicants with disabilities like people who are Deaf or have visual impairments.
Oh, HireVue is the bane of existence. I almost had a job as a technical writer. Passed everything except the HireVue assessment.
Flee away from that mess.
So the system discriminates against autistic people who have difficulty with eye contact. Got it.
Whoa what the fuck, this IS NOT OK. The term Orwellian gets thrown around a lot, but THIS is it. I know dozens of people who would utterly fail this test that are fantastic employees in their area. What an utter fucking joke. Anyone who comes across this needs to refuse.
Sounds more like training for the AI.
That sounds like you stumbled into testing for a job you didn’t know you were testing for.
No way your data isn’t being sold off somewhere.
Was there legal beforehand stating they reserve all rights and privileges to exclusive use of your likeness including licensing your likeness to other organizations?
I stumbled into that kind of thing on a random job application website that was testing out video interviews.
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This is the most psychotic shit I’ve heard of in this context. There is no way in hell I’d agree to any of this.
I turned down a company as soon as they mentioned HireVue. HireVue has been sued multiple times for sketchy stuff.
If they’re leaving the hiring decision to an AI then they don’t seem to really care who gets hired. When I hire I always do 100% of the process in person (that is, reviewing CVs and two interviews) because I want to know exactly who I’m potentially going to be working with. I can’t imagine outsourcing that process to some software.
Then again I used to be an optical inspection machine programmer at a microchip factory (years before they would call something like that an “AI”) and I know first-hand how it’s practically impossible to program a machine to reject all bad product and pass all good product – let alone doing it with people using software to evaluate CVs based on keywords and dinging them if they don’t make eye contact with their webcam…
Fuuuuuckkk that.
This… sounds like a couple of ADA lawsuits waiting to happen.
I feel like 10 years ago this could’ve been posted on a dystopian fiction forum
If this becomes a thing, I will be starting my own business.
I would not have even bothered. Pretty soon they will realize that anyone smart enough to pass the test is too smart to work for them.
This was for a grocery position???
Did any of these things have to do with the actual job?
Are you sure you were interviewing for a national grocery chain & not the Starfleet Academy Science Division?
Seriously – don’t engage with this level of bullshit, it only encourages them. I imagine it’s utterly fucking useless as an interviewing tool – but in terms of machine learning it’s probably invaluable. If they want real world testing let them pay for it.
The eye contact thing… Use the NVIDIA eye contact tool. Use AI against itself
A company I worked for had a demo from HireVue and luckily leadership decided it didn’t reflect well on the company itself. This was about 6-8 years back now.
They were planning on using it for assessing just the hourly employees back then. It was a pretty clunky demonstration of videos and how their platform was assessing the score.Â
Supposedly, it is meant to eliminate racial bias (and other biases) the hiring manager and recruiters might have as all they would see is the score. The videos were viewable only by the higher level recruiting users, but of course not all companies would stick to this approach and probably just use the platform to cut corners or save time in the recruiting process to do the interview for them.
I haven’t heard about HireVue in many years until your post. The games thing is new, sounds like a shitty experience.
I have participated in a couple dozen in person and online interviews. Your application/resume has already shown us that you are reasonably qualified. The interview is just see to if we like you. AI tells us nothing about who you are. What a lazy approach to finding the right fit. I would do poorly on the test described here.
Those tasks honestly sound like they’re training the AI rather than actually being useful. It reminds me of the security captcha stuff, which is mostly used to train AI to recognize images
How can you video interview without headphones and an external mic? What a stupid request
Let’s you know to avoid the company, can’t imagine the job would be any less bullshit than the hiring process.
The robots are slowly starting to take over. This is the start. The corporate fat cats are going to continue to lay off workers and replace with AI.
As an autistic, the fact that your score plummets for lack of eye contact feels like it is discriminatory towards autistics.
What do you mean you don’t love living in a dystopian, nightmarish hell?
We need to collectively refuse to participate in anything like this.