The Clone Passed Twelve Interviews and Then Went Home
A recruiter, a candidate and a large language model join a Teams call. Nobody on the call is a person, and the call still starts eight minutes late. That is the joke. Here is the news. Companies have started putting AI in the first round of hiring. Not just the CV filter, which has been a machine for years, but the actual interview. An avatar with a name and a haircut asks you to tell it a story about a time you showed initiative, and something behind it scores your answer. Semafor and The Next Web have both covered the next turn of the screw, which is that candidates are now sending avatars of their own to sit those interviews, and recruiters are spending five minutes working out that the very polished person on screen is not, strictly speaking, a person. ...