#381 Escaping the AI Hiring Doom Loop with Daniel Chait, CEO & Ophir Samson, Head of Voice AI at Greenhouse

Most hiring decisions still come down to gut feel, and gut feel is full of blind spots — a favorite school, a firm handshake, the type of coffee someone carries into the room. As AI reshapes recruiting, the industry is being forced to ask whether decisions can be made on evidence instead of instinct. That means defining what actually predicts success in a role, testing every candidate against the same criteria, and being able to show the reasoning behind a hiring call rather than just a hunch. For anyone building a team, the question isn't whether bias exists — it's whether your process is built to catch it before it shapes who gets hired.

Daniel Chait is the co-founder and CEO of Greenhouse, the hiring software used by tens of thousands of companies to run structured, data-driven hiring processes. Ophir Samson is Greenhouse's Head of Voice AI, leading the team following Greenhouse's acquisition of Ezra AI Labs, the voice AI interviewing company he founded.

In the episode, Richie, Daniel, and Ophir explore the flood of AI-generated resumes drowning both job seekers and recruiters, how Voice AI interviews let candidates showcase themselves beyond a resume, structured hiring and scorecards for fairer decisions, bias audits and anti-cheat safeguards, EU AI Act compliance, and measuring success through pass-through rates and time savings, and much more.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

• Zapier <> Greenhouse: Conversational Application Voice AI

• Paradigm Strategy

• Anthropic

• Pipecat on GitHub

• Daily

• Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? (AEA)

• Connect with Daniel: LinkedIn

• Connect with Ophir: LinkedIn