I only decided to agree to an automated interview once and it wasn’t worth it. First there was just knowledge test in form of quiz, which after completing with decent result they invited me to second stage and it required me to read a question in 10s and then record my response from webcam in 30s. It was cringe af and I hated it, but decided to just swallow it at that point. Then they invited me to 3rd stage. When I learned that it’s also automated and involves webcam I said thank you. No more. If it was just the initial quiz I’d think they’re smart to filter out people who lie in resume, but 3 stages and I can’t still talk to a human - no thanks.
I haven’t interviewed anywhere in nearly a decade, but damn, the human interaction part is so important. These are your potential future coworkers, a vibe check goes both ways.
I don’t think I’d even do the first automated interview, tbh. If a human is going to be involved in hiring me down the line, they can damn well be present while I’m answering their questions.
Speaking as someone who used to do interviews and hiring, I wouldn’t even have wanted this shit involved. I can filter candidates just fine on my own. I don’t need all the automated bullshit or HR in the way. They don’t know what they’re doing. We had some rudimentary application that would reject applicants before sending us a list of approved ones to consider and it was awful. I constantly had to go into the reject list and manually pull applications to interview because the ones it sent me sucked.
I only decided to agree to an automated interview once and it wasn’t worth it. First there was just knowledge test in form of quiz, which after completing with decent result they invited me to second stage and it required me to read a question in 10s and then record my response from webcam in 30s. It was cringe af and I hated it, but decided to just swallow it at that point. Then they invited me to 3rd stage. When I learned that it’s also automated and involves webcam I said thank you. No more. If it was just the initial quiz I’d think they’re smart to filter out people who lie in resume, but 3 stages and I can’t still talk to a human - no thanks.
I haven’t interviewed anywhere in nearly a decade, but damn, the human interaction part is so important. These are your potential future coworkers, a vibe check goes both ways.
I don’t think I’d even do the first automated interview, tbh. If a human is going to be involved in hiring me down the line, they can damn well be present while I’m answering their questions.
Speaking as someone who used to do interviews and hiring, I wouldn’t even have wanted this shit involved. I can filter candidates just fine on my own. I don’t need all the automated bullshit or HR in the way. They don’t know what they’re doing. We had some rudimentary application that would reject applicants before sending us a list of approved ones to consider and it was awful. I constantly had to go into the reject list and manually pull applications to interview because the ones it sent me sucked.