> Admitting right off the bat that you're going to waste the time of 90% of your applicants without these stakes is just wildly disrespectful.

They were already doing this. Now it is just more automated. You didnt have the right keywords. 2pts into the basket. Too long (meaning old/bad team fit), gone. You worked for a company that might have some sort of backend NDA, gone. Wrong school, gone. Wrong whatever, gone. You were never getting to the interviewer in the first place. You were already filtered.

The reality is if they have 1 position open. They get 300 resumes. 299 of them need to go away. It has been like this forever. That AI is doing it does not change anything really. Getting anyone to just talk to you has been hard for a long time already. With AI it is now even worse.

Had one dude who made a mistake and closed out one of my applications once. 2 years after I summited it. Couldn't resist not sending a to the second number days/hours/mins how long it took them. Usually they just ghost you. I seriously doubt the sat for 2 years wondering if they should talk to me. I was already filtered 2 years earlier.

> They get 300 resumes. 299 of them need to go away. It has been like this forever. That AI is doing it does not change anything really.

That's not really true.

From the candidate, there's the effort to submit a resume (low), and then the effort to personally get on a video call and spend 45 minutes talking (high).

Discarding 290 out of the 300 resumes without talking to the candidate is way more acceptable, because the effort required from the company is about the same as the effort required by the candidate.

Asking the candidate to do an interview with an AI flips this; the company can en masse require high effort from the candidate without matching it.

It is what it is. But surely the difference here, and a pretty galling difference, is that the 299 candidates are now “wasting” double the amount of time than pre-ai times. Time spent doing the traditional application process + now an additional time talking to a bot to simply get to the same dead end

> They get 300 resumes. 299 of them need to go away. It has been like this forever.

I doubt that. The number of applicants per job has gone up over the past few decades. Likewise, the number of jobs that people apply to has gone up too.

An applicant doesn't need to do 45 minutes to prepare a job specific resume, unlike the interview.