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Interviews should be in-person.

In every practical sense, online interviews are the part of the early screening process. The sheer amount of applicants means that you need to do some filtering before inviting people to do on-site interviews.

So the process is now:

1. Embellish your resume with AI (or have it outright lie and create fictional work history) to get past the AI screening bots.

2. Have a voice-to-text AI running to cheat your way past the HR screen and first round interview.

3. Show up for in-person interview with all the other liars and unscrupulous cheats.

No matter who gets hired, chances are the company loses and honest people lose. Lame system.

If you make the first interview in person, most people filter themselves out because they aren’t in the country or can’t be bothered.

Do a first phone screening to agree on the details of the job and the salary, but the actual knowledge testing should be in person.

Modern problems sometimes require old-fashioned solutions.

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