New Software Can Hire, Evaluate, and Pay Workers, Making Human Bosses Obsolete

I see this the other way, this can be used to scare your boss: "Don't irritate me or I'll replace you with a short script"

This seems like a valuable tool for analyzing statistics, but algorithms cannot actually understand what makes a particular product or program more successful - just that it sold better. So it's probably a bad plan to put your company's future in the hands of a machine that can't see the big picture.

I can see this thing becoming like Uniblab from the Jetsons. It'll find ways to shortchange employees to make revenue higher.

"The software could even be written to improve itself, by recruiting developers that would improve is own code."

Well, if it hired me to improve it's code, I think I'd modify it to like certain unusual aspects of my resume to hire me more often and perhaps for more money :)

ROFLMBO (PG rated acronym)

This place is a job shop. Their description of the API is amazingly vague, but it mainly seems to be a way to hire contractors to do a WELL DEFINED project. ( definition of what's needed is always the sticky part).

Did not see anything about replacing bosses/evaluating employees etc.

If this means we wouldn't have to put up with those stupid questions asked by the personnel guy its ok with me.

That's one hiring system I do not want to be apart of.
I want a boss that is human, because they judge a person by experience, character, attendance, personality, and team effort. Every boss thinks differently about each of the above. They have their own understanding of who to hire.

A robot cannot ever truly have these judging capabilities and cannot have the ability to think differently or in fact independently of a programer's perspective. Making a robot impossible to have a fair hiring system. Robots are not human and can never think human, so why should I or anyone allow them to hire me and be my boss?
If bosses are taken out the equation how will anyone become higher than staff employee?
This software will be the downfall of business itself if this becomes the major employer system of the future.

This is an interesting concept, but this site seems to be made especially for SPAMmers and crackers. For example, I see a lot of jobs listed for bypassing CAPTCHA, both data entry and character recognition programming. It might not have been the intention of Freelance.com, but the site logic hasn't done much, if anything, about filtering this kind of activity.

Until human bosses actually become obsolete, the best way to avoid the toxic ones is by doing research on potential employers on sites like eBossWatch.

ford2go - it's up to developers to write the software to evaluate candidates as there is an infinite universe of jobs naturally. However we provide a profile of each bidder including reputation, feedback on past work and ratings with which to assist in the evaluation.

Once each job is complete, likewise a rating and feedback can be contributed. Also each bidder has only a selection of qualified categories they can bid in- so for example a job involving marketing will only get bidders with marketing experience.

the freelancer team

Do not see this really being a concern going forward As much as technology can do, it can never replace evaluating the big picture of what ever employee brings to the table.

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