Asked to undergo biometric collection and facial analysis for job application
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I applied for a position at bunq (https://www.bunq.com/), and the service they wanted me to use was Neurolytics (https://neurolytics.ai/) to proceed with the application.
Things I found particularly troubling:
Quoting from [1]:
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The Cultural Fit scan
The cultural fit scan empowers you and the hiring company to see how well you’re a match with the companies value and culture. The scan consists for two parts: Watching a company video (~2 min.)
As you’re watching the video, your webcam is recording. Our smart technology can analyze your behavioral qualities to measure your engagement levels with the various messages in the video.
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And
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To learn more about your cognitive abilities, you’ll be taking a 10 minute timed questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 4 types of questions:
- General Knowledge - Logical reasoning - Numerical reasoning - Verbal reasoning
As you’re taking the questionnaire, you’re being recorded. The scores of this questionnaire, will tell the recruiter more about your stress resilience and your ease under pressure.
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Not only does this strike me as pure BS from an analytical/scientific POV, it's also just troubling that they expect anyone to be okay with something as insane as this - especially since they keep talking about "valuing privacy and fairness for every applicant" ([2], under "Automated Decision Making & Fairness") ("No hidden biases, no guesswork").
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250330160416/https://neurolyti...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250330160732/https://careers.b...