"I once had a candidate come to my meeting naked." What IT professionals think about dress code, lighting, and equipment requirements at online interviews and meetings

Vitaly Maslyaninov, CTO at Serpstat

This company is using AI to score interviews. It’s not a fact that a human will conduct the interview. This is the new norm now. AI is already doing this really cool. Get used to it.

Gleb Malinovsky, Software Engineer and Aspiring Architect

Models are trained to generate fake video interviews.

Sandor Kolotenko, iOS Developer

This could be because some candidates are using AI instead of their own faces. My LinkedIn feed has been relentlessly throwing up stories where company owners or founders are complaining about some left-wing people trying to sneak into remote work. They might not even exist and instead be sweatshops in India.

Another problem can be with candidates. I have seen this in my own experience, who connect with (which I had):

• the toilet of the office building of the current job they want to leave (the tiles, echoes and sounds of the toilet are just wonderful);
• the hospital reception in Egypt, because it turns out the candidate is not even in Ukraine and was injured while wake boarding;
• on the bus.

Oleksa Mashyts, QA Evangelist

It’s interesting, if this is not a sudden «trick» that is doomed to failure, and the company is recruiting people in this way, then this is their super screening tool. After all, only the chosen ones will pass this «sieve». And if this works as a tool for forming a team with a certain psychotype that they are counting on, then they are geniuses. If you break away from this (not very realistic, in my opinion) option, then this is a fierce grin that is strange to even read.

Alexey, Frontend Developer at TrackEnsure Inc.

The psychology is actually very simple — if a person can be trained before they are hired, then they can be manipulated after they are hired.

Andriy Zilnyk, Senior NodeJS Software Engineer

Many people are now using AI in interviews, I have encountered this many times. The market is changing and so are the requirements for candidates.

Regarding light-colored clothing, that’s interesting.

Veronika Ilchenko, Test Manager, Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Welltech

I always tell my colleagues that an interview is not an exam, it should be a comfortable communication between both parties. Here it looks exactly like an exam you don’t want to take.

Yulia Omelchenko, Senior Recruiter

There’s a feeling after reading the message that makes you basically not want to leave.

But on the other hand, they immediately spelled out their expectations and thereby helped you determine your level of comfort in communicating with the company.

Yevhen Toporovsky, Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at Capgemini

Dear colleagues, I read the discussion of those requirements with interest. But I reject the training of neural networks, it is easier to do it with your employees.

In my opinion, this is psychological pressure on the candidate, with the aim of selecting people who will not think about illogical demands and orders. Such people are easier to manage.

Olga Makoviy, Recruiter

I also had an experience when a candidate came in a T-shirt and with a cigar. That’s why I’m not surprised by the request. There are different cases, just like different candidates.

Kateryna Kryvozub, HR Manager

Apparently, earlier, during online interviews, some kind of game happened. I had one in the summer, where a young lady went on air half-naked, a cat was climbing on her, she regularly got up after him, and interrupted the conversation. And there was one where the candidate was sitting somewhere in the country, or in the village, we brought him to the level of a partner, and he was in a dirty T-shirt, and in the background — chickens and a cow walking. In short, confusing. That’s why I also wrote such an instruction to prevent risks. This is how we show how it is accepted in the company. Disagree at this stage — ok, let’s not waste each other’s time

Vadym Laurens, Founder and CEO at SVAIY.ART

I once had a candidate come to a meeting naked. So that makes sense.