[thecombjelly]

Do programmers love numbers and algorithms so much they want to be reduced to them? Programmers are people and should be treated as such.

Also, shouldn't we be concerned that giving one company's algorithms control over who gets hired will be too much power in too few hands? And algorithms are not neutral. The people that make the algorithms have biases and discriminations just like regular people do but at least if your company does its own hiring you can work on figuring out what those are and how to address them. How can you do that if you depend on some proprietary algorithm?

And what about disabilities? How does your algorithm handle those? Racial bias? So many unanswerable questions.

I have many issues with the way most companies interview but giving up that process to a proprietary algorithm seems like the worst solution. This is not news to be celebrated.

[koopuluri]

> And what about disabilities? How does your algorithm handle those? Racial bias? So many unanswerable questions.

Couldn't algorithms reduce racial bias by focusing on evaluating candidates independent of their race, and other personal attributes?

[thecombjelly]

They could but if part of the process is proprietary or hidden how can you know what it is doing?

[opportune]

Or it could be implemented naively e.g. as a simple input feature in a DNN model

[dabockster]

Don't know why you're downvoted so much. You're completely spot on.