This is to keep people from actually applying, right?
It’s a “how desperate are you” application question.
Ahh that makes sense too
I just failed a job ‘interview’ because I kept freezing up on the video. I hate this shit so fucking much. This people should rot in hell. Not kidding, these companies are evil and probably do have that child sex ring the Q freaks talk about. I want to fucking die now.
I don’t know if you’re in the same boat I am, but this is about the boat I’m in:
saw that on here a couple days back, and I’ve been applying to jobs for six months! The 'tism is some bullshit.
I’m sure I could get a job at Walmart or McDonald’s if I had no standards, but frankly I’d rather just scrape by doing Uber and Lyft. And everything else that I have applied to? Got me two whole interviews. In six months. Which I then never heard back from.
Fuck modern employment culture, man.
Trying to find a job is psychological torture. Remember it’s ok to take a break from it sometimes (it’s a slog) and talk to someone if you need help.
The main problem for a number of people is that they need any job right now. Being unemployed and never being called for any interviews is another hell
It’s just gonna be me staring into the camera for 5 minutes.
don’t worry! that’s all is needed to make sure you aren’t unqualified by “being black” or “looking vaguely foreign”, hope this helps!
…Oh yeah, that’s true.
Fuck.
Under [Andy] Warhol’s direction, subjects of the [artwork] Screen Tests attempted to sit motionless for around three minutes while being filmed, with the resulting movies projected in slow motion. The films represent a new kind of portraiture—a slowly moving, nearly still image of a person.
You know without that circle I would never have known where to read
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Yes thank you so much
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I kept rereading the time stamp and view count for a solid 20 minutes trying to figure out the point of the post until I finally saw the tiny red circle buried in all of that white background. Damn near impossible to see.
There is a red circle?
Yeah, but you basically need a tunneling electron microscope to see the thing
In the age of deepfakes, no way I’d make that video and submit it with all the other personal details I’d be putting into the application forms. That’s a recipe for ID theft.
Just send a rickroll and be done with it.
Obvious -plot-twist: the entire thing is a phishing scam.
I hate this so much.
If you want to do a video interview, sure. But I’m not going to willingly give you a recording of myself without clear use terms.
How long are these files retained? Is this video subject to data privacy laws? Since they’re requesting it be uploaded elsewhere, how many 3rd parties am I involving myself with by the end of this interview process?
Not to mention, we live in the era of deepfakes for voice and video. Do I have any gaurentee that this won’t be used to train some AI model somewhere?
This level of hoop-jumping pre-employment should be made illegal on par with hazing laws. Not everyone can afford to be picky about potential employment.
We recommend using loom.com for this
Loom is an AI company. You have a guarantee that it will be used to train an AI model.
It’s not just about what they can use the video for. This also lets them screen for a lot of protected classes without actually asking about them. Your name and resume don’t convey your skin color, your accent doesn’t come out in your work history, nobody can make guesses about your sexuality based on your work email address, but these all become much more easy to discriminate against with a video. All under the pretext of “We didn’t like their answer to the question.”
And you don’t even get the context of an interview to defend yourself.
Your name and resume don’t convey your skin color
Your name is (usually) a pretty big giveaway for your ethnicity, and in most countries it’s the norm to have a picture of yourself on your resume
If you want to know what I look like, bring me in for an in person interview.
In the US, it certainly isn’t. It’s viewed as a red flag for a US company to ask for a photo unless the job is something where appearance is an important quality like actor or model. I think the US grapples with this kind of discrimination more than many of the countries where it’s the norm.
All excellent points.
I understand others, but your sexuality? If you’re not literally wearing a pride flag, how could they work that one out just from a video of you?
Bigots always have their ways. Even if it bunches metrosexuals in with actual homosexuals, and makes for all sorts of other stupid lack of nuance takes, a bigot doesn’t care, because they’re always right. If they thought their view could be wrong, they’d be less likely to be a bigot.
Stereotypes. A few that come to mind:
An affectation like a lisp
A buzzcut
An androgynous appearance
Not everyone can afford to be picky about potential employment.
I was talking to a friend about a company that treats its employees poorly and he said “Well, they chose to work there,” and I wanted to give him a lecture about how sometimes people have to choose between a shitty job and the streets.
Doesn’t actually say the video has to be of you; just to submit a video response.
3 min loop of the “this is fine” dog redone as a gif would be my response.
Here’s a video capture of scrolling down my resume and cover letter very slowly.
Obvious Rickroll opportunity.
“Hi, I don’t respect human society because it’s observably lacking in compassion. Not only for non-human animals, but even for human animals. You guys are pathetic and I’m not interested in being part of your self-fellating club.”
How I’d stretch that out into 2 minutes I don’t know.
Attach several examples of people self-fellating?
A nice, detailed how-to guide.
Easy… 1:30 of silence first.
That way they have to waste time to get to what you have to say. Or play a video of some kind.
Fuck em. They’re being disrespectful of your time, waste theirs.
Easy… 1:30 of silence first.
I like it!
Wouldn’t recommend life. I suggest asking for a refund.
“Nevermind, I don’t work with people who use idiotic interview processes. I can only imagine how dysfunctional and adversarial your company is, based on this idiocy”.
“Thanks for the red flag right away.”
Thank you so much for your time and consideration, but due to unforeseen circumstances beyond my control I must regretfully withdraw my application at this time and apologize for any inconvenience it may cause. In the future, if a similar role should become available, please feel free to reach out to me. Thank you and have a lovely rest of the week.
Which of these two shapes best describes your personality and work ethic? Write a 3 paragraph explaining why.
My answer:
I only see a single white rectangular shape with holes, I don’t think this particular shape describe in any way my personality or work ethic. 3 paragraphs seems way too much to talk about a white shape.
Ok:
a 3 paragraph explaining why
Nailed it
I’ll pretend like that was intentionally written that way as a form of satire
Bouba and Kiki! I haven’t seen those two in ages. I heard they had a kid. Total waste of a gender reveal party. Kid constantly subverted all expectations.
I would say my work ethic is mostly kiki. How you interpret that is up to you.
“Kiki in Kiki’s Delivery Service does work hard. But she’s also an animated character. Do you feel like an animated character? Invent an interpretive dance to show your response to this question, but stage it in zero gravity so that your feet make no sound as they do not hit the ground.”
“I have no personality. I smell of the rotting flesh that your life will become if you don’t give me a job and, in fact, you wallet, your family, and your whole life. I will lay eggs in your mouth as you sleep, and you will turn into me from the inside, and you will know nothing but the beautiful exultation of infinite pain.”
“That’s the exact answer we’re looking for. Can you start today?”
“I know it’s the exact answer you’re looking for, I’m the psychometrics consultant who designed this test.”
We all say bouba, but it’s really kiki
*2 -3 minutes of me saying “SHIT!” over and over*
Luckily somebody circled it for us, I’m not sure I would’ve known what was being pointed out to use otherwise.
They really should name the company.
It’s not a person, it’s a company behaving badly.
