So even if I could understand filtering out the lazy folks from those who are willing to jump through this particular video submission hoop, why the fuck do they waste people’s time with such a ridiculously nebulous prompt? I honestly don’t know how I would answer such a vague question for more than 30 seconds.
It works on the same basis as those email scams. They only want the people dumb enough to fall for the scam so the email scammers litter the emails with spelling and grammatical errors to filter the people out that can’t be easily manipulated. This employer is filtering out people that aren’t desperate and people with any sense of employment ethics or self worth.
“nobody wants to work with a Debbie downer”
They are seeking the desperate who are easier to exploit.
The ability to bullshit on demand is an invaluable skill in the corporate world.
I know now how my manager got her job.
Oh that’s easy. It’s to filter out people who acknowledge that anything other than their actions impact their quality of life.
Yeah beyond „'s iight“ I’d just be bullshitting but prolly couldn’t talk more than 20 seconds.
Just find something wild on tiktok and paste it
*2 -3 minutes of me saying “SHIT!” over and over*
This is to keep people from actually applying, right?
It’s a “how desperate are you” application question.
Ahh that makes sense too
What’s that? A website is asking for public randos to upload meatspin and any other videos found from the internet to their servers for review where HR will need to watch them. I give this form 3 months to live if you share the url
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Ironically, a well known video hosting site (not necessarily loom, never heard of it) probably has better data retention policies than a random company’s WorkDay site.
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I just failed a job ‘interview’ because I kept freezing up on the video. I hate this shit so fucking much. This people should rot in hell. Not kidding, these companies are evil and probably do have that child sex ring the Q freaks talk about. I want to fucking die now.
Trying to find a job is psychological torture. Remember it’s ok to take a break from it sometimes (it’s a slog) and talk to someone if you need help.
The main problem for a number of people is that they need any job right now. Being unemployed and never being called for any interviews is another hell
I don’t know if you’re in the same boat I am, but this is about the boat I’m in:
saw that on here a couple days back, and I’ve been applying to jobs for six months! The 'tism is some bullshit.
I’m sure I could get a job at Walmart or McDonald’s if I had no standards, but frankly I’d rather just scrape by doing Uber and Lyft. And everything else that I have applied to? Got me two whole interviews. In six months. Which I then never heard back from.
Fuck modern employment culture, man.
Yeah, my grandmother kinda gets how bad getting hired is now so she has stopped pressuring me to a degree. My plan is to try streaming once STALKER 2 comes out since I already plan to play the shit out of the game.
The nice thing about developing a skill is that it really puts the inter in an interview. The employer has to be polite and answer questions. They feel bad about wasting your time because you will walk away if they do that too much.
just sends 3 minutes of my apartment with no sound
Since this screenshot of a post never disclosed what the subject of the video needs to be and simply mandates a speech 2-5 minutes long, one could record their voice over a stock film of something random
Luckily somebody circled it for us, I’m not sure I would’ve known what was being pointed out to use otherwise.
I hated these. They were all from the sketchy companies, too. None of the good ones I actually wanted to work for did this.
You know without that circle I would never have known where to read
I kept rereading the time stamp and view count for a solid 20 minutes trying to figure out the point of the post until I finally saw the tiny red circle buried in all of that white background. Damn near impossible to see.
There is a red circle?
Yeah, but you basically need a tunneling electron microscope to see the thing
Here, does this help
Yes thank you so much
You’re welcome. I would do anything for you.
It’s just gonna be me staring into the camera for 5 minutes.
Under [Andy] Warhol’s direction, subjects of the [artwork] Screen Tests attempted to sit motionless for around three minutes while being filmed, with the resulting movies projected in slow motion. The films represent a new kind of portraiture—a slowly moving, nearly still image of a person.
don’t worry! that’s all is needed to make sure you aren’t unqualified by “being black” or “looking vaguely foreign”, hope this helps!
…Oh yeah, that’s true.
Fuck.
I hate this so much.
If you want to do a video interview, sure. But I’m not going to willingly give you a recording of myself without clear use terms.
How long are these files retained? Is this video subject to data privacy laws? Since they’re requesting it be uploaded elsewhere, how many 3rd parties am I involving myself with by the end of this interview process?
Not to mention, we live in the era of deepfakes for voice and video. Do I have any gaurentee that this won’t be used to train some AI model somewhere?
This level of hoop-jumping pre-employment should be made illegal on par with hazing laws. Not everyone can afford to be picky about potential employment.
Doesn’t actually say the video has to be of you; just to submit a video response.
3 min loop of the “this is fine” dog redone as a gif would be my response.
It’s not just about what they can use the video for. This also lets them screen for a lot of protected classes without actually asking about them. Your name and resume don’t convey your skin color, your accent doesn’t come out in your work history, nobody can make guesses about your sexuality based on your work email address, but these all become much more easy to discriminate against with a video. All under the pretext of “We didn’t like their answer to the question.”
And you don’t even get the context of an interview to defend yourself.
All excellent points.
I understand others, but your sexuality? If you’re not literally wearing a pride flag, how could they work that one out just from a video of you?
Bigots always have their ways. Even if it bunches metrosexuals in with actual homosexuals, and makes for all sorts of other stupid lack of nuance takes, a bigot doesn’t care, because they’re always right. If they thought their view could be wrong, they’d be less likely to be a bigot.
Stereotypes. A few that come to mind:
An affectation like a lisp
A buzzcut
An androgynous appearance
Your name and resume don’t convey your skin color
Your name is (usually) a pretty big giveaway for your ethnicity, and in most countries it’s the norm to have a picture of yourself on your resume
In the US, it certainly isn’t. It’s viewed as a red flag for a US company to ask for a photo unless the job is something where appearance is an important quality like actor or model. I think the US grapples with this kind of discrimination more than many of the countries where it’s the norm.
If you want to know what I look like, bring me in for an in person interview.
We recommend using loom.com for this
Loom is an AI company. You have a guarantee that it will be used to train an AI model.
Not everyone can afford to be picky about potential employment.
I was talking to a friend about a company that treats its employees poorly and he said “Well, they chose to work there,” and I wanted to give him a lecture about how sometimes people have to choose between a shitty job and the streets.
