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Re: Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

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Post by hnlurker22 »

fhd2 wrote: post #416

The last time I've used a leet code style interview was in 2012, and it resulted in a bad hire (who just happened to have trained on the questions we used). I've hired something like 150 developers so far, and what I ended up with after a few years of trial and error: 1. Use recruiters and network: Wading through the sheer volume of applications was even nasty before COVID, I don't even want to imagine what it's like…

I would never show an interviewer how I code. Let alone allow them to give me 2 hours to solve a problem. It's contradicting that you know that developers "mostly shine when not under pressure", yet you set 2 hours to solve a problem (Sounds like you don't want to pay them for the take home). The positive feedback you're getting for your flawed process just shows how worse other, more common, recruiters are.

Re: Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

pdimitar wrote: post #64
vunderba wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. This is why - while I won't ding an applicant for not having a public Github, I'm always happy when they do because usually they'll have some passion projects on there that we can discuss.

I have 23 years of experience and I am almost invisible on GitHub, and for all those years I've been fired from 4 contracts due to various disconnects (one culture mis-fit and two under-performances due to illness I wasn't aware of at the time, and one because the company literally restructured over the weekend and fired 80% of all engineers), and I have been contracting a lot in the last 10 years (we're talking 17-1…

>I am energetic and love to go for the throat of the problems on my first day

The long term goal should be that you should NOT be energetic, yet be able to pretend that you are. We'll see where you are at the 33 year mark :)

Re: Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

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Post by nvarsj »

I'm pretty sure the majority of people I interview (in big tech) are now cheating with some kind of assistance. Usually it's obvious, but not always. I am just plodding along though, and hoping my company moves back to on-site interviews. Alternatively, interviews need to be designed for AI assistance (e.g. much more complex problems).

Re: Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

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Post by confidantlake »

kortilla wrote: post #717
davely wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Wanting to be paid under false pretenses is the definition of fraud. What? No, it isn't. Regardless, if the job requirements state "X years of XYZ experience" and you have to have >X years of experience, then using AI to look up how to do a leetcode problem for some algorithm you haven't used since your university days is absolutely not "false pretenses" nor fraud.

If the interview process says, “you must do X without using AI” and you use AI and hide it, you’re committing fraud.

Nope.

Re: Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?

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Post by palerdot »

biztos wrote: post #461
fhd2 wrote: post #416

The last time I've used a leet code style interview was in 2012, and it resulted in a bad hire (who just happened to have trained on the questions we used). I've hired something like 150 developers so far, and what I ended up with after a few years of trial and error: 1. Use recruiters and network: Wading through the sheer volume of applications was even nasty before COVID, I don't even want to imagine what it's like…

As someone with a pretty long career already, and who's comfortable talking about it, I was a bit surprised that in three interviews last year nobody asked a single thing about any of my previous work. One was live coding and tech trivia, the other two were extensive take-home challenges. To their credit, I think they would have hired "the old guy" if I'd aced their take-homes, but I was a bit rusty and not super thr…

So, did you find a company that you are happy with (interviewing or otherwise)? I would be really interested to know how you are dealing with tech landscape changes lately, and your plans for staying in tech ...

Wishing you all the best for your career!

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