Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"

This is quite a conundrum. These AI companies thrive on the idea that very soon people will not be replaced by AI, but by people who can effectively use AI to be 10x more productive. If AI turns a normal coder into a 10x dev, then why wouldn't you want to see that during an interview? Especially since cheating this whole interview system has become trivial in the past months. It's not the applicants that are the problem, it's the outdated way of doing interviews.

Re: Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"

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Post by aw4y » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 8:49 AM UTC

this remember me an old interview, years ago, when they asked me to code something "without using Google"....

Re: Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"

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Post by rapidaneurism » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 8:49 AM UTC

Do they also promise not to use ai to evaluate the answers?

Re: Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 8:49 AM UTC

> please do not use AI assistants during the application process. We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. Please indicate 'Yes' if you have read and agree.

Exact opposite of our application process at my previous company. We said usage of ChatGPT was expected during the application and interview phase, since we heavily rely on it for work

Re: Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"

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Post by scottmf » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 8:52 AM UTC

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #3

That's totally reasonable, imo. You also can't look up the answers using a search engine during your application to work at Google

Why not