@afrozenpeach@geek.gay #Alt4You An email from Mattie Schraeder to Mercor. No, I don't and will never understand. AI has no business in the hiring process. There is nothing fair, equitable, or inclusive to allowing and requiring a computer algorithm known for hallucinating, making things up, and not understanding context to judge human candidates. I will not sit in front of a camera to talk to a soulless automaton. The fact you require this is shameful. I am not a cog in a machine. I am a human being with actual thoughts and feelings, and my time is valuable. The fact that you think it is worth wasting my time to talk to a literal brick wall instead of a human to evaluate my candidacy, rather than having a conversation between recruiters and hiring managers is everything wrong with this industry. An interview is between two people. An AI is not a person. It cannot think. It cannot evaluate. It can only regurgitate the generic shape of what it vaguely thinks an answer would look like. You would be better off shredding my resume like the game Job Job on Jackbox Party Pack 8 and haphazardly gluing it back together than to trust the likes of Chat GPT. If you want a cog in a machine to write code for you or your clients feel free to use ChatGPT until your heart is content. If you want actual software engineers to solve real world problems and write quality software, interview your candidates by treating them like the valuable assets and individual contributors with minds, personalities, thoughts, feelings, and decades of real world experience that they are. The first step to finding quality candidates and future employees is to respect them. You clearly do not respect anyone's time or autonomy. Your process is dehumanizing, disrespectful, and deeply flawed. No self respecting candidate should subject themselves to your ridiculous excuse for a hiring process and everyone involved in the decision making that put this into action should be ashamed of themselves. Have a wonderful day, and kindly do not ever contact me again. Sincerely, Mathilda Schraeder