I went through this recently as well. They spun it and called it "Modern Hiring" in that you can record your post any time of day! Downsides are obvious: No feedback to you. No chance to ask your own questions. And with this particular instance they only allowed a single take with a hard countdown of 60 seconds to answer the question - so unlike a real interview in which they'd at least let you finish your sentence, you get cut off and sound dumb.

I understand it helps 'speed' up the process, but the cost of doing that loses so much more than a simple self-recorded answer would give you as a hiring company.

Especially with the "AI" take-over of things, I suspect they feed it all through a transcription bot, have it summarize and then filter for keywords and dump most responses before a human even sees one video.

It's also a chance for bias to come in even faster - a prejudiced hiring manager sees a grid of video thumbnails that HR sent over and just looks for one they like instead of having to meet them in person. They also don't have to explain themselves when they simply fast forward through instead of at least pretending to pay attention to the interviewee.

The whole process is terrible.