Nails the Interview. Can’t Do the Job
A recruiter friend of mine here in New York told me she hired a perfect candidate. Clean answers, confident, sharp. First day on the job, he could barely do a thing.
There’s a program called Parakeet. It listens to your interview through the mic, reads the question, and writes the answer on your screen while the other person is still talking. You read it out loud. It’s built to stay hidden: invisible on screen share in Zoom, Meet, Teams. It handles coding tests too, writing the code live. Fifty-two languages. About thirty dollars for a handful of interviews.
So in an interview you’re not judging the person anymore. You’re judging how well they read what a machine feeds them.
And plenty of people do it. Out of nearly twenty thousand interviews looked at between last summer and January, over a third got flagged as suspected cheating.
Companies noticed. Google and McKinsey brought back in-person interviews. Seven hiring leaders out of ten here in the U.S. went back to meeting people face to face, for exactly this reason.
The problem isn’t using AI to prepare. That’s studying, and it’s fine.
The problem is that people get into companies who passed the test but don’t have the skills to be there. And the coworkers find out later, when they have to cover the gap. Unfortunately.
AI is a great gym for walking into an interview ready. Used to read answers live, it prepares no one, and it fills workplaces with people who can’t do the work.
What do you think?
#ArtificialDecisions #MCC #ArtificialIntelligence #Work #Hiring
👉 Important note: We’re planning the upcoming months. If you’d like to request my presence as a speaker at your event, please contact my team at: management@camisanicalzolari.com
📕 The book Artificial Decisions is out now!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H34WH3BV
🔍 SEE ALSO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzyZHLnnatk