Readers Respond to Robot Phone Interviews

Journal readers largely critical of one-sided phone interviews; ‘This is pure corporate laziness’

Reader reaction to The Wall Street Journal’s article last week on automated job interviews was swift and mostly negative.

Hundreds of people sounded off via email, comments and posts on social media, writing about the practice of companies screening job applicants by asking them to take a recorded phone interview with no one on the other end of the line.

“This...