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I'd hate to be interviewed by an AI. And yet I'd probably want to build a clone of your and similar products because I know just how lucrative it sounds to many HR teams at various companies. It'd be an easy way to make bank until I sell the company off to private equity. Gotta ride the hype train.

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I've been thinking about building a recruiting tool with the main selling point being it's NOT AI. I'd call the app "The Rejects Bin"

And I say this as a person who uses AI for everything. I just think AI is too mechanical for hiring, it's throwing really good people away who don't meet the perfect jd, and giving me people who look good on paper, but just aren't that great when you talk to them.

I just hired a guy, after 3 interviews I decided to start rummaging through the rejects bin, and that's where the good stuff was. Subtle stuff the AI just doesn't pick up on was being missed.

What kind of subtle stuff? Can't you train the AI to pick up on those signals too?

Ha, no LLM back and forth interview! Just an async test, and the signals are implicit. I do think there's an advantage for candidates - personally I'd rather have the opportunity to prove my skills vs. being auto-denied because I didn't go to a shiny university/etc

I saw some post on reddit about this company [0] that actually did have the LLM back and forth, so ever since then I wondered about cloning it.

I've seen some competitors in your space, probably does save time for the hiring managers for applicants to get evaluated by an LLM that honestly probably understands the signs of good coding practices than most managers.

[0] https://brighthire.com

A shiny university is probably the ultimate distillation of signals though. It's not perfect. No process is. But it's one of the most thorough ones we have. And it's proven its worth in many verticals as a good signal for hiring.

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