Job Seeker Uses ChatGPT in 5th AI Interview After 700 Applications Yield Little Response
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Updated · WIRED · Sep 2
Job Seeker Uses ChatGPT in 5th AI Interview After 700 Applications Yield Little Response
1 articles · Updated · WIRED · Sep 2
Summary
Five AI screening calls with Everforth Apex's recruiter "Riley" ended without any human follow-up, prompting Christopher to let ChatGPT handle the fifth interview on his behalf.
10 minutes into that bot-to-bot call, the systems looped through onboarding questions and closed politely, but no recruiter contacted him afterward—matching the outcome of his previous four interviews.
700 applications over six months had already produced little response for Christopher, a government contractor hit by a weaker DOGE-era job market, making the AI exchange a mix of protest and experiment.
23 minutes was how long Riley later interviewed a fake, highly tailored ChatGPT candidate Christopher created from a job posting; even that polished exchange produced no further contact.
63% of job seekers have encountered an AI interview, according to Greenhouse, as recruiters automate screening and startups build tools to detect AI-assisted answers—pushing hiring toward more bot-on-bot encounters.