Fourteen minutes with the CV-reading AI
First, the CV scan. Then the interview was handed over to the thing that had read it.
Michael Szollosy was told the AI would ask questions based on his experience and the role. “I was told that it would take 14 minutes and that I needed to turn on my camera.”
Fourteen minutes, camera on, with a machine choosing the questions from his CV. He completed that interview and later did another couple.
By then, this was no one-off curiosity. The first interview had not been the last. He was getting the hang of it. What he took from a machine being that easy to talk to, though, lands on the humans and not the machine.
The sequence begins after a CV scan: the AI has read the document and will shape its questions around the candidate’s experience and the role.
The format is concrete: 14 minutes, camera on. The account then widens from one encounter to another couple of AI interviews.
For this candidate the AI interview was not a one-off; he has done more since. His own conclusion points back at the human interview rather than the machine: if a machine can hold the conversation, that says something about how much of a human the conversation needed.