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pavel_lishin
Why would I take the time to interview with a company that can't take the time to interview me?

(Also, the Get Started button seems to do nothing for me in Firefox. I guess that's one of the technical issues?)

axg11
I've heard this sentiment. Have you been through a screening interview with a recruiter before? It's most often very formulaic and they don't have expertise in your domain. On top of that you have to find a mutual time that works for the recruiter 9-5pm.

With this approach you can interview anytime 24/7 and get a consistent experience.

Fixing the Firefox issue - thanks for pointing that out.

pavel_lishin
But it can also be a valuable two-way interaction - I can ask about benefits, about salary, about in-office/remote expectations. And more importantly, I can believe that those answers are binding, and not likely to be a hallucination unless the recruiter has been macro-dosing on that particular day.

Ultimately, this doesn't feel significantly different than recording a video of myself from prompts on a Google Doc.

axg11
Two-way interaction is of course valuable but it's only valuable with the team you'll actually be working with. You will never work with the recruiter who is responsible for your screening interview.
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pavel_lishin
I was also thinking more about this sentiment, and how much or little it matters.

You're not selling this to interviewees. So their sentiment - that is, my sentiment - ultimately doesn't matter.

However, I would wager that a lot of good software engineers would view this as wildly disrespectful of their time, and would refuse to engage with this; it would be a filter for engineers who for whatever reason cannot say "no" to this - more desperate, more junior. It might impact the actual customers, when their talent pool starts looking shallow and full of algae.

JohnFen
> I would wager that a lot of good software engineers would view this as wildly disrespectful of their time, and would refuse to engage with this

This is exactly how I'd feel, yes. It would tangibly demonstrate that the recruiter has so little regard for me that I'd actively want nothing to do with them or the company that they're working for.

trendma
I might have given it a try if Firefox had worked.