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AI Has Broken Hiring

Hacker News · Jun 21, 2026, 4:14 PM

Key takeaways

  • Here’s How to Fix It. by Shraddha Sunil and Mudit Saraf
  • For decades, corporate hiring has favored candidates who could present a flawless résumé and deliver highly structured answers to interview questions.

Hiring and recruitment AI Has Broken Hiring. Here’s How to Fix It. by Shraddha Sunil and Mudit Saraf

For decades, corporate hiring has favored candidates who could present a flawless résumé and deliver highly structured answers to interview questions. Today, generative AI is making it easier for applicants to do those things, whether they have the underlying competence or not. Put another way, the ability to perform well in interviews is becoming infinitely scalable and practically free. For anyone involved in recruiting, that’s a problem.

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