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Show HN: Recruit AI – try a natural voice interview

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1 points by axg11 2 years ago · 8 comments · 1 min read

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This interview is for Machine Learning Intern. We've worked hard to make our voice AI natural-sounding and intelligent enough to ask thoughtful questions.

We also have more info about how to sign up as a recruiter here: https://ribbon.ai/recruit

pavel_lishin 2 years ago

Why would I take the time to interview with a company that can't take the time to interview me?

(Also, the Get Started button seems to do nothing for me in Firefox. I guess that's one of the technical issues?)

  • axg11OP 2 years ago

    I've heard this sentiment. Have you been through a screening interview with a recruiter before? It's most often very formulaic and they don't have expertise in your domain. On top of that you have to find a mutual time that works for the recruiter 9-5pm.

    With this approach you can interview anytime 24/7 and get a consistent experience.

    Fixing the Firefox issue - thanks for pointing that out.

    • pavel_lishin 2 years ago

      I was also thinking more about this sentiment, and how much or little it matters.

      You're not selling this to interviewees. So their sentiment - that is, my sentiment - ultimately doesn't matter.

      However, I would wager that a lot of good software engineers would view this as wildly disrespectful of their time, and would refuse to engage with this; it would be a filter for engineers who for whatever reason cannot say "no" to this - more desperate, more junior. It might impact the actual customers, when their talent pool starts looking shallow and full of algae.

      • JohnFen 2 years ago

        > I would wager that a lot of good software engineers would view this as wildly disrespectful of their time, and would refuse to engage with this

        This is exactly how I'd feel, yes. It would tangibly demonstrate that the recruiter has so little regard for me that I'd actively want nothing to do with them or the company that they're working for.

    • pavel_lishin 2 years ago

      But it can also be a valuable two-way interaction - I can ask about benefits, about salary, about in-office/remote expectations. And more importantly, I can believe that those answers are binding, and not likely to be a hallucination unless the recruiter has been macro-dosing on that particular day.

      Ultimately, this doesn't feel significantly different than recording a video of myself from prompts on a Google Doc.

      • axg11OP 2 years ago

        Two-way interaction is of course valuable but it's only valuable with the team you'll actually be working with. You will never work with the recruiter who is responsible for your screening interview.

trendma 2 years ago

I might have given it a try if Firefox had worked.

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