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by gfykvfyxgc 1612 days ago
Text based job interviews?

How does this industry continue to come up with such innovative new ways to deeply suck at recruiting?

The “text based interview” is one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard.

Of course everyone has some grand justification for their bad ideas so I wonder how this terrible idea is justified.

Maybe it’s April 1?

If a company proposes a “text based interview”, id suggest typing “I’m not interested in your company thanks”, and moving on.

1 comments

> The “text based interview” is one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard.

Could you elaborate on this? What are the downsides from the candidate's point of view?