Have you gone back to in-person whiteboards? More focus on practical problems? I really have no idea how the traditional tech interview is supposed to work now when problems are trivially solvable by GPT.
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#2Name of the game now is not to get fired at all costs and weather the storm until the dust settles...
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#3Not sure why interviews would change.
Even if you're using ChatGPT heavily it's your job to ensure it's right. And you need to know what to ask it. So you still need all the same skills and conceptual understanding as before.
I mean, I didn't observe interviews change after powerful IDE's replaced basic text editors.
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#4I mentioned this in a different related post but there seems to be a pretty sad lack of basic integrity in the tech world where it's become a point of pride to develop and use apps which allow an applicant to blatantly cheat during interviews using LLMs.
As a result, several of my friends who assist in hiring at their companies have already returned to "on-site" interviews. The funny thing about this is that these are 100% remote jobs - but the interviews are being conducted at shared workspaces. This is what happens when the level of trust goes down to zero due to bad actors.
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#5As someone currently job searching it hasn’t changed much, besides companies adding DO NOT USE AI warnings before every section. Even Anthropic forces you to write a little “why do you want to work here DO NOT USE AI” paragraph. The irony.
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#6Part of my resume review process is trying to decide if I can trust the person. If their resume seems too AI-generated, I feel less like I can trust that candidate and typically reject the candidate.
Once you get to the interview process, it's very clear if someone thinks they can use AI to help with the interview process. I'm not going to sit here while you type my question into OpenAI and try to BS a meaningful response to my question 30 seconds later.
AI-proof interviewing is easy if you know what you're talking about. Look at the candidates resume and ask them to describe some of their past projects. If they can have a meaningful conversation without delays, you can probably trust their resume. It's easy to spot BS whether AI is behind it or not.
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#7Not sure why interviews would change. Even if you're using ChatGPT heavily it's your job to ensure it's right. And you need to know what to ask it. So you still need all the same skills and conceptual understanding as before. I mean, I didn't observe interviews change after powerful IDE's replaced basic text editors.
Because there's a format of interview that's basically a brainteaser that takes 45 minutes to think through and whiteboard some code for, but which is trivially solvable by copy and pasting a screenshot of the prompt into ChatGPT. This amounts to candidates being given the answer and then pretending to struggle with understanding your question and then figuring out a solution to it when really they're just stalling for time and then just copying the answer from one browser tab to the next.
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#8There are some tools that read your screen and can provide hints and solutions for coding type questions. I honestly don't trust myself to not mess it up, plus the whole ethics side of it, but I'm sure that will always be a problem for online assessments
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#9Not sure why interviews would change. Even if you're using ChatGPT heavily it's your job to ensure it's right. And you need to know what to ask it. So you still need all the same skills and conceptual understanding as before. I mean, I didn't observe interviews change after powerful IDE's replaced basic text editors.
Because interviews were always an attempt to discern a signal few hours interview into an accurate prediction of performance from months to years. AIs generate a lot of nosie to mask that. Interviewees can just pass the question to the AI, who will generate a reasonable sounding response.
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#10Part of my resume review process is trying to decide if I can trust the person. If their resume seems too AI-generated, I feel less like I can trust that candidate and typically reject the candidate. Once you get to the interview process, it's very clear if someone thinks they can use AI to help with the interview process. I'm not going to sit here while you type my question into OpenAI and try to BS a meaningful res…
This, and tbh this has always been the best way. Someone who has projects, whether personal or professional, and has the capability to discuss those projects in depth and with passion will usually be a better employee than a leet code specialist.