Those Who Swift - Issue 265
Weekly note ✏️AI is not only changing how we write software, but also how we get hired! We all know about ATS systems scanning résumés and filtering candidates before a human even sees the application. But hiring automation is going much further now. For years, some companies used prerecorded interview questions where candidates recorded answers by pressing a button. Later came the “tell us about yourself” intro videos to evaluate communication skills and readiness for remote work. Now some AI-first companies are fully automating the interview process itself. Imagine an AI interviewer. Let’s call her Clara. She starts politely with an ice-breaker like “How’s your day going?” and then moves into structured sections: Swift, APIs, Xcode, architecture. Sounds futuristic until the details appear. Clara asks candidates to leave a two-second pause after each answer so the system can detect when speech ends. Think too long, pause dramatically, or hesitate naturally, and your answer might simply get cut off. Have a noisy environment? Better warn the birds outside, the construction workers nearby, or anyone making unexpected sounds. The system may interpret any loud noise as the end of your response. And Clara will not repeat questions, no matter how many times you ask. Then comes the final stage: screen sharing and a coding challenge, often with strict instructions not to use AI tools. Which sounds ironic considering the company itself is using AI to evaluate and filter candidates from the very beginning. Maybe that’s the strangest part of all. The process is optimized for efficiency, but in doing so it often removes the human side entirely. Instead of building interest in the company, it can have the opposite effect. Less time invested in candidates, more restrictions, more automation. At this point, the real question almost sounds inevitable: will AI soon be interviewing AI? Have you had any similar experience lately, where you were interviewed by AI? 🤖 Share it in the comments. We would love to discuss! 💬
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