Move over, AI being used as office assistants. Organizations are now deploying AI as recruiting agents as well. This generation is literally cursed. No? Prepare a resume with AI. Upload on a portal with AI assessing the whole thing. Another AI scans and scrutinizes the CV. An interview invite is sent out to the prospective candidate. The applicant shows up beaming for yet another shot in a job market that is seeing thousands of AI-enabled layoffs, with many replacing several workers with one. In a viral Reddit post, a user shared their ordeal of having been interviewed by a bot.
In the post entitled “Had to stop an interview, now I am having nightmares,” the user stated
I was scheduled for an interview on Teams (groan) yesterday. Hopped on the link 5 mins in advance. Then someone showed up in the meeting room, greeted me, then started asking me questions. I noticed their tone and voice was rather monotonous and flat. Creepy, but I thought maybe that was just their personality.
The user further continued,
Then I had the suspicion that I was being interviewed by an AI. To test, I stopped answering its questions. It noticed my silence but only remarked in the same eerie monotone it had been using since we started. Got creeped out of my skin, so I just left.
The applicant then approached the talent acquisition over the nature of their interview only to be confirmed about their suspicion.
After that, I reached out to the recruiter who scheduled the interview. They confirmed that I was indeed interviewed by an AI.
The user further writes,
I has no idea that was their process. In fact, there was nothing in our past correspondence or calendar invites that indicated that the interview would be conducted by an AI.
I wasn’t able to sleep that night because of that AI. Absolutely bizarre.
The user’s post has been removed by the mods from the link here, but a copy of the same with a screenshot can be accessed here on X/Twitter.
A similar incident was shared by another user where the application was “Invited to an AI Interview by an actual person.” The prospect stated their response as follows:
Hi Chloe,
No, thank you. If you are interested, I am happy to speak with a person directly, but I don’t care to take part in a one-way conversation. I believe at its worst it is discriminatory, and at its best it shows as a company you lack compassion as part of your moral compass. Best of luck finding the right fit.
Kind Regards,
Invited to an AI Interview by an actual person, this was my response:
byu/dvlinblue inrecruitinghell
Meanwhile, here’s how the internet is reacting to AI as interviewers. One user remarked, “I’m guessing there never was a position, and they are stealing your time to train their AI.” Another user wrote, “This is all so baffling to me. They might as well have just given the list of questions to the interviewee and had them type up a response if they are going to use a computerized system to process the responses. The whole point of a face-to-face interview is to get to know the person and their human qualities.”
A third user jibed, “Easy fix: have your own AI bot do the interview and they can both chat.” Yet another user commented, “That sounds creepy but the possibilities of having some fun with their “interviewer” exist. I would be tempted to see if I could make it have a meltdown.”
One user remarked,
Sounds like an episode of black mirror/severance where they create a copy of you from the interview and then use it as a slave. Weird times…”
Another wrote,
Jesus Tap Dancing Christ If a live human recruiter can’t take the time to have real qualifying questions at their disposal, no matter the job, we are doomed as a society.”
“Recruiting as a corp function is dead on arrival,” lamented one, while another stated, “Yeah, this is the tip of the iceberg and we’re not even close to how bad it will get.”
Yeah this is the tip of the iceberg and we’re not even close to how bad it will get. pic.twitter.com/zTDp6aqo28
— Rods from God (@doomsdayslam) July 23, 2025
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