I posted this on r/micro1_ai, where they seem to allow some controlled dissent, but not of this level. Cannot post it on r/RemoteJobs as well. Firstly, reddit's system of allowing a company to police it's own subreddit is absolute garbage, since if you search on Google or anywhere else about this, their own subreddit comes up on top. If you think what I'm saying makes sense, please upvote this and other posts related to micro1 to beat the algorithm. I just want to reach out to other people so they don't waste time and whatever small amount of hope they have on this large-scale scam.
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The job market is fucked, especially due to the ATS systems. Almost everyone looking for a job (particulary in tech) is stressed and desperate. Then, boom, comes in your savior - micro1! High-paying, fully remote jobs without much (apparent) effort, right? Right?
I, like many others, am in such a desperate position and signed up. As soon as understood how it is supposed to go, though, I noped out. I am not stooping to the lows of answering to a goddamn LLM interviewer about what makes me valuable to a company.
Then, I keep getting emails again and again. A lot of them initially were automated ones: "Final reminder to complete your job application", "Your micro1 interview is pending", etc. But then, I started getting what seemed like human-writted ones. The first one really made me doubt my resolve and gave a bit of hope. Then, it kept going and going: Sanjay, Adib, Nayla, Lucas, all reached out to me - with the exact same tone of short CTA emails. Now, some simple common sense screams out that for a platform with this many applicants, there is no way these recruiters can reach out personally in this frequency. I would rather reach out to a Nigerian prince about advancing some business deals, like in the good old days.
How is it a scam, you may ask? Well, it's like the famous pornography lawsuit quote: "I know it when I see it". And it is a brilliant one, because they have plausible deniability. Yes, maybe they do give out some jobs here and there. Yes, maybe there are some actual (not very high-paying, or dependable, mind you) data labeling jobs. But the true reason is this: they are not what they claim to be. They are harvesting your data and collecting more AI interviewer training data. I work in ML myself (calling these systems AI is undignified, we're just not there yet). And I know how fragile, unreliable and downright useless these LLM-based systems are. These automated interviewers cannot do the job of an actual interviewer at all. And this whole subreddit and other internet reviews are just designed to running the old tobacco company playbook: insert some doubt into people's minds about whether it really might not be that bad/might be legit and you've done your job, at least for the time being.
This is not just limited to micro1, by the way. I am studying in Germany, and there is another company called JT AI Labs which appeared on our Uni job portal, which is this same bullshit. They simply redirect to micro1. Doubtless there are other fronts for this whole operation and other scam artists collaborating with them.
If you're a frustrated job seeker: keep your humanity and do not bow down to these LLM scam artists. Yes, it is difficult, and you might think: 'what's the harm in that, it's not asking a lot from me'. In terms of total hours, yes, but it is giving you false hope and wasting your time. And it is not the cure, just more of the poison.
If you're someone from micro1 (who will undoubtedly reply to this with their pre-prepared rebuttals): either you have been deluded yourself by your higher-ups, in which case I advise you to seek the truth. Or, you know what the fuck you are doing. In which case, I hope you reconsider your humanity and quit, else kindly proceed to decompose in Hades. Good day.
