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Today I had my first AI interview
Today I had my first AI-conducted interview. It was, by a wide margin, the best interview experience I’ve ever had. As someone who is autistic, traditional interviews have always been the hardest part of any career move. Not because of capability, but because the format rewards social performance over substance. Over the years I’ve dealt with everything from inappropriate questions to open mockery of autistic traits. None of that assessed competence. The AI interview removed all of that noise. No second-guessing tone, no forced eye contact, no need to decode facial expressions, and no pressure to “perform” socially. I could focus entirely on the questions. More importantly, the AI could follow my thought process. Where a human interviewer might assume I’ve gone off-track, the system recognised the structure of my answers and helped map them back to specific competencies. It encouraged depth rather than penalising pauses or directness. For the first time, I was judged on the quality of my thinking rather than on how neurotypical I could appear. If this becomes the standard, it has the potential to level the playing field for a lot of candidates who are highly capable but often misunderstood in conventional interviews. It also raises a broader point: if AI can assess competence without the irrelevant social filters, perhaps the traditional format needs re-examining.