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Welcome to double standards games, corporate edition.
Here’s the deal. Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services and investment bank. They warn job seekers not to use ChatGPT or Google during their interview.
In an email sent by the bank to college students looking for work, it basically said: “Kids memorise everything. Don’t think of asking AI for assistance.”
They’re also swimming in AI.
AI is good for companies, but not for employees.
Goldman Sachs has long been claiming that generative AI would revolutionize productivity.
They have even created their own internal AI to help employees translate code and write emails. They have implemented AI tools in multiple departments.
They even outsource interviewing to HireVue — an AI-powered platform that scans candidates’ answers and decides who’s worthy of the next round and who isn’t.
Let’s recap. You’re looking for a job and you’re nervous, but you can’t Google the name of your interviewer. But Goldman Sachs? They are using the most sophisticated bots to evaluate you.
The company says, “We want to listen to your voice.”
But these interviews aren’t exactly easy. Candidates have 30 seconds for preparation and only two minutes to answer one question. There’s no pressure, right?
Jennifer Zuccarelli said, “We want our applicants to speak in their own voices.” Fortune.
The company basically wants candidates to be original, but is asking artificial intelligence (AI) to do the judging.
There’s still more!
Goldman is not alone in his double standards championship.
In a recent job posting, the creators of AI-chatbot Claude (a firm called Anthropic), wrote: “We would like to understand your interest in Anthropic directly without a system that uses AI.” The company that creates AI does not want you to use the technology.
Amazon? The same thing. They have told recruiters that anyone who uses AI in the interview process will be disqualified. Amazon is investing billions in AI, and encouraging their staff to use the technology to speed up workflows.
What is hypocrisy?
Let’s face it, this is a lot of hypocrisy.
AI creates the descriptions of all your job applications. You never get a response from many of these applications.
Some HR people, guided by an AI-based system that is HR-specific, will ask you why you are passionate about selling AI systems. Your answers are then analyzed by bots that get more sophisticated.
When you speak to them, you are supposed to turn off your phone and toss your laptop out of the window. The issue isn’t about fairness or work ethic, but control.
They get to use all the AI tools in the world, while you are stuck with a Nokia 3310 and your lesson (literally).
