As a tech lead, from last year, all my new hire interview is fundamentally changed, no concept, no algo, no design.
Just a real world problem, even not clearly defined yet, allow candidate use any AI tool they like, ask me questions or do research for problem clarification, and work it out.
I'm watching all this process in 1-1.5 hours to see if he is a problem solver. 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly and smart prompt or questions in current work, so the thinking and prompting process is key.
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#12Typical interview types we see:
Make this thing that would be impossible without AI. The test is to see if you actually architect it properly and understand principles of how things connect together.
Make this thing that would be impossible without AI. Now make these modifications without any AI.
Make this thing. You may use low quality AI like Composer 3 or none at all, but if you use none, we'll probably think of you as some kind of boomer.
Here's a bunch of technical problems that we don't know the answer to. If you give answers or insights we haven't considered, then you're bringing value to the team (e.g. git/PR policy, microservices, feature flagging, localization, security)
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#13As a tech lead, from last year, all my new hire interview is fundamentally changed, no concept, no algo, no design. Just a real world problem, even not clearly defined yet, allow candidate use any AI tool they like, ask me questions or do research for problem clarification, and work it out. I'm watching all this process in 1-1.5 hours to see if he is a problem solver. 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly an…
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#14As a tech lead, from last year, all my new hire interview is fundamentally changed, no concept, no algo, no design. Just a real world problem, even not clearly defined yet, allow candidate use any AI tool they like, ask me questions or do research for problem clarification, and work it out. I'm watching all this process in 1-1.5 hours to see if he is a problem solver. 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly an…
> 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly and smart prompt or questions in current work, so the thinking and prompting process is key.
I am still a junior but this seems like you are interviewing the AI rather than the candidate. Also why bother with a technical interview if you expect AI to do their job?
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#15As a tech lead, from last year, all my new hire interview is fundamentally changed, no concept, no algo, no design. Just a real world problem, even not clearly defined yet, allow candidate use any AI tool they like, ask me questions or do research for problem clarification, and work it out. I'm watching all this process in 1-1.5 hours to see if he is a problem solver. 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly an…
> 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly and smart prompt or questions in current work, so the thinking and prompting process is key. I am still a junior but this seems like you are interviewing the AI rather than the candidate. Also why bother with a technical interview if you expect AI to do their job?
It's interviewing the capacity to use the tools in a useful manor rather testing the tools themselves.
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#16As a tech lead, from last year, all my new hire interview is fundamentally changed, no concept, no algo, no design. Just a real world problem, even not clearly defined yet, allow candidate use any AI tool they like, ask me questions or do research for problem clarification, and work it out. I'm watching all this process in 1-1.5 hours to see if he is a problem solver. 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly an…
> 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly and smart prompt or questions in current work, so the thinking and prompting process is key. I am still a junior but this seems like you are interviewing the AI rather than the candidate. Also why bother with a technical interview if you expect AI to do their job?
Actually not a real technical interview for this case, it's a real world problem solving, including business analysis(for the uncleared problem), coding, and testing to deliver to me. What I'm looking for a individual builder(or a one-person tech team) instead of an expert on a specific tech stack.
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#17Leetcode is implicit IQ testing. That is why they will likely keep it despite AI.
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#18Leetcode is implicit IQ testing. That is why they will likely keep it despite AI.
If you're hiring software developers and you care about IQ, you don't need to test it implicitly; you can safely test for it explicitly, and there are several large, deep-pocketed plaintiffs lawyer targets who routinely do so. The idea that general cognitive testing is verboten in US employment is almost entirely an Internet myth.
People use Leetcode because they believe it tests for programming aptitude.
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#19Leetcode is implicit IQ testing. That is why they will likely keep it despite AI.
If you're hiring software developers and you care about IQ, you don't need to test it implicitly; you can safely test for it explicitly, and there are several large, deep-pocketed plaintiffs lawyer targets who routinely do so. The idea that general cognitive testing is verboten in US employment is almost entirely an Internet myth. People use Leetcode because they believe it tests for programming aptitude.
Nope, you'll get a lawsuit for discrimination if you explicitly test for IQ. That's why they do it implicitly. The scheme is very simple: hire people with the highest IQ, and since they have high IQ, they will figure at least something out.
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#20As a tech lead, from last year, all my new hire interview is fundamentally changed, no concept, no algo, no design. Just a real world problem, even not clearly defined yet, allow candidate use any AI tool they like, ask me questions or do research for problem clarification, and work it out. I'm watching all this process in 1-1.5 hours to see if he is a problem solver. 99% will be solved by AI with your proactivaly an…
This is so fucking dumb you're going to hire a candidate who got A/B tested into the 'smarter' SoTA model or something.