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GPT-vetting: The first ever AI interviewer (micro1.ai)
4 points by totaa on April 15, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


As seen on ThePrimeagen's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLx2q-UnH6M

They claim the ability to screen for the top 1% of candidates. Well, that's easy: the top candidates are the ones who display a shred of dignity by bailing when they hear they're going to be interviewed by Micro1.ai.

Oh, and they're clients of AutoProctor, a Y Combinator company specializing in privacy-fucking.


Sadly, this is only going to perpetuate some of the toxic gate-keeping patterns we've developed in the tech industry for interviews. Thumbnail image suggests that this excels at "trivia based," knowledge versus relevant and applied.

In short: this will be optimizing your hiring for some sort of programming Jeopardy contestant that might not be able to ship code on time and have human workplace soft skills.


Great, now they're adding "test human workplace soft skills" to their roadmap, and you'll have to spend 90 minutes in a virtual "daily huddle" with 8 of their AI avatars, to test your resilience and empathy while AI Steve (the virtual PM) takes the mic for another 10 minutes for a quick aparté on DEI in the dev team.


A full 40% of the applications we now get for jobs are GPT-generated.

I wonder what their plans are to stop the escalation?

It seems very tempting for an interviewee to have an AI come up with the answers, now that latency is pretty low.

I'm also very curious about how you'd protect such an app from prompt injection :)


Perfect! I have my GPT-Based Interviewee.ai ready to go to interact with your Bot. It's been trained on my personal repos and writing and can answer just as I would! Now I can interview for hundreds of jobs simultaneously! /s

Actually, thanks for creating this. It's a perfect screening device for companies I would NEVER want to work for. Seriously. If you employ a service like this to fully dehumanize job candidates, then you are definitely NOT the kind of shop I would ever want to work for.




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