I think it's probably inevitable that something like this will happen eventually, but I worry that it makes the cost of an interview too asymmetrical. Companies could "interview" effectively all applicants, since it requires no time and negligible expenses on their side, while job seekers still have to prepare and go through each interview (say, 10X more on average) despite the company having no real intention to hire them.

As an applicant, I say nay. I wouldn't trust an AI to do the job correctly, and it would make me question the company's judgement enough that I would no longer want to work there.

Also, from the employer's side, wouldn't doing this eliminate one of the major things you learn from testing applicants? You learn a bit about how their minds work, which can give you an idea of how well they'd fit into the team.

SW Engineer here.

Speaking to someone, even over video chat, is very information dense.

Their mannerism, how quickly they arrive at answers, how they communicate during their process, are they easy to talk to, do they give the sense that they know what they’re doing or are they typing every question to chatgpt.

These things are very important signals that I look for in potential coworkers, especially for juniors, where their culture fit and willingness to explore problems is worth more than their experience.

These are the kinds of things you’d 100% lose with Ai Interviews. They are an extremely poor replacement for actual interviews.

Also, as a candidate, I would be incredibly insulted if I scheduled an interview, put time aside, and the company I’m applying to didn’t even care to put a human on the call. Why not just let candidates write an essay at that point.

Anyone experienced in interviewing can tell a good candidate from a bad one 5 minutes into the interview. there's too much human judgement and relationship building.

not sure how AI can replace that.

At first I thought this was a coderbytez or hacker rank replacement, but now I understand it's meant to replace first or second round live-coding interviews?

Does it do both? is it expensive?

quite bullish that ai agents will start doing the majority of early interviews. curious to see how it progresses.

this looks great on paper. Leetcode and hackerrank doesn't seem to do anything anymore. curious to know how you score performance?