Job hunting data engineer here. The biggest issue I have with these is that they just refuse to allow you to even complete it when it detects standard bullshit on your computer.

Have an off brand microphone?
Crashes the app.

Using any other browser besides chrome?
Nope, fuck you. Won't allow you to continue.

Have a workstation with multiple monitors?
Nope, sorry. You have to fucking unplug all but one...

Using a VPN or ad blocker?
Ha, you have no privacy.

One of these things wanted me to use my phone and download an AI app. It's such an anti-human experience.

I'm instantly blocking your company from my search.

I got laid off at the beginning of March, and the job hunt is fucking brutal. I'm a software engineer with 20+ years of experience, and it's just all AI now. Most companies just never respond, and if I'm lucky, I get to be interviewed by an AI chat bot, and then immediately rejected. I'm thinking about just going into the trades at this point.

Create your own AI avatar to perform all the interviews. Apply to jobs using agents. Get multiple jobs, do the least you can possibly do for each, and get paid. If they can't be bothered to hire their own employees, they don't deserve real employees.

"Let our AI agent scan your résumé!"

No.

"Talk to our AI chatbot to complete your application!"

No.

"Tell us how you have used AI to enhance your workflow in the last X years!"

No.

"The responsibilities of this position include mandatory engagement with our dynamic and exciting ✨ AI agent ✨, and your usage will be obsessively monitored by your manager and used as a performance indicator instead of your actual work output!"

No.

"But if you don't embrace the AI Revolution ✨ you'll be left behind!"

Good. Me bang steel on anvil. Unga fuckin' bunga.

Let's see your dumbass "AI" actually produce something tangible. Pollution doesn't count.

Can we also ban uploading your resume, then having to manually input all the stuff...... that's in your resume?

I'd be very tempted to try to prompt inject.

Indeed recently made it so you can no longer store your resume to attach easily to applications; it was too useful. Now they auto -move you into a "were processing this with AI" workflow so that you won't need your resume anymore (of course after you've fixed all their shit AI parsing of your resume) you'll just need Indeed.

We definitely need a new horse in the race other than indeed and LinkedIn.

The absolute worst case for AI that I've come across is the attempt to use AI to ask job candidates questions to extract more information from them before the company has to lift a finger. It's breaking the contract that there is a respectful connection between the company and the one who is applying. Effectively, the contract is broken when the company expects the applicant to apply with never receiving any real valuable interaction, with the ability to simply click a button to reject their time investment. This is something that needs to be regulated and banned immediately. It is the worst professional use case for AI that I've experienced thus far.

FedEx forces you to use their AI chatbot to apply lmao.

Just click any of their listings and it redirects to a slop site.

If an a.i. recruiter wants a video, I'll give 'em a fucking video...

The job market is SO FUCKED.

The ones where you need to have a webcam on are an instant no thanks from me, id rather interact with a human

I have only come across this nonsense a couple of times in my job search. I refused each time.

Nope, rich people said so

Also need a law that application info can't be sold.

Nope that shit. I'd rather deal with real HR.

Refuse to comply

Me when I see this shit online:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Xn4yAbA9cZw