[HN Gopher] McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Perso...
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       McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
        
       Author : hjek
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-02-15 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | givemeethekeys wrote:
       | Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these
       | personality tests to large companies.
       | 
       | Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will
       | require that you take such a personality test.
        
         | lp0_on_fire wrote:
         | It's bad enough many companies want to run invasive background
         | checks (up to and including pulling your credit) for
         | milquetoast low-paying-entry-level jobs now they want people to
         | take some bastardized version of Myers-Briggs which itself is
         | pseudoscience?
         | 
         | I sorta understand a company wanting to do that for some
         | C-level or upper management position, or for a finance person
         | responsible for the books...but for a burger flipper???
        
           | mistrial9 wrote:
           | those with the least ability to say NO will be the targets at
           | first. Similar case with PTSD veterans, incarcerated
           | individuals, those alone at the end of their lives, some
           | family law situations etc.. IMO there is literally no bottom
           | to this, and it can and does require real legislation.
        
         | maayank wrote:
         | Do you know the name of the company/other references about this
         | test?
        
           | lmz wrote:
           | The company is mentioned in the article.
           | 
           | > The aforementioned companies are all contracted with
           | Paradox.ai, a "conversational recruiting software" company
           | ...
        
       | olliej wrote:
       | Someone really needs to test how these "personality tests" are
       | actually "testing" people. This feels very much like "let's
       | launder bias by using 'algorithms' that do the discrimination
       | because they're trained on existing bias"
        
       | senkora wrote:
       | > Paradox's "Traitify" product, which uses the strange slides to
       | lump applicants into "Big Five" or "OCEAN" personality groups,
       | rating them on how open, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable,
       | and neurotic they are.
       | 
       | For the record, the correct answer is always to be low on
       | neuroticism and high on everything else. The role doesn't matter;
       | that is always the "ideal" personality and any deviation is a
       | defect that will only be tolerated if they are having trouble
       | filling the role.
        
         | mordechai9000 wrote:
         | Many years ago, barely out of high school, I took a test for a
         | temporary warehouse stock picking job. The test was primarily
         | concerned with the applicants' attitude to authority and
         | violence. Oh, and theft, of course. Many questions were
         | repetitive, and used slight variation in wording or reversed
         | meaning to ask the same things over and over again.
         | 
         | So, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you agree with these
         | statements? Sometimes it is ok to hit people. I feel like
         | hitting my boss sometimes. Some people deserve to be punched.
         | Sometimes is is necessary to use violence to solve a problem.
         | Taking pens from work isn't really stealing. Etc.
         | 
         | I suppose they must've managed to screen out at least some of
         | the people who are not very smart and prone to violence and
         | theft.
        
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