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Show HN: Interviews Chat - Never bomb another job interview with
this AI copilot
Hey HN! I'm Artur, a full-stack developer with a passion for
building tools that solve real-world problems. After years of
navigating the often-stressful world of job interviews, I decided
to build Interviews Chat, an AI-powered platform designed to help
you prepare for and ace your next interview. Here's what
Interviews Chat offers: Personalized Question Prep: Paste your
resume and the job description, and our AI will generate a tailored
list of potential interview questions. No more generic lists - get
ready for the specific questions you're most likely to face.
Realistic Practice: Record your answers to practice questions in a
simulated interview environment using your webcam. This helps you
get comfortable with the format and build confidence. In-depth
Feedback: Our AI analyzes your recorded responses, providing
detailed feedback on content relevance, clarity, and even your
confidence level. Real-time Interview Copilot: For those crucial
live interviews, our AI acts as a silent partner, listening in and
offering real-time suggestions on what to say next. It can even
analyze whiteboard challenges and coding tasks to help you shine.
Tech Stack: Interviews Chat leverages the power of Next.js, React,
Vercel, and OpenAI's cutting-edge language models (GPT, Whisper) to
deliver a seamless and effective interview preparation experience.
Why I Built It: I believe everyone deserves to feel confident and
prepared going into a job interview. Interviews Chat removes the
guesswork and anxiety, providing you with the tools and insights
you need to showcase your skills and land your dream job. Try it
out: I'm excited to share Interviews Chat with the HN community.
You can try it out with free credits at https://www.interviews.chat
I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions!
Author : akorna
Score : 29 points
Date : 2024-06-06 10:58 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| sameoldtune wrote:
| I can't wait for the near future where the interview is AI on
| both sides of the zoom meeting.
| bigredhdl wrote:
| Yeah, I can't shake the feeling that while AI is exciting and
| can unlock new solutions to problems, too many uses of it will
| actually make our lives worse. The best uses of the technology
| seem to be when it enables coming at something from a whole new
| direction, not the cases where it is just directly replacing
| something we were doing before.
| barrenko wrote:
| AI is just the "logical" end of the enshitification of
| everyday (digital) life that is well under way.
|
| Especially career / professional.
| fatnoah wrote:
| I can't wait for the shift back to in-person interviews to
| combat the use of AI assistants in virtual interviews. ;)
| nyx wrote:
| As someone who has to interview candidates occasionally, I love
| the idea of a real-time interview copilot system. Here's why.
|
| I see two main ways it could shake out.
|
| In the less exciting case, the copilot isn't very good. It takes
| a long time, or produces assistance that obviously came from an
| LLM, or gets candidates regurgitating nonsense during the
| interview. In that case, I get a decent "don't hire" signal, for
| the same reason I wouldn't want to hire someone who was getting a
| friend to message them answers during a live interview.
|
| In the more exciting case, the copilot is really good. It allows
| candidates who wouldn't otherwise pass the coding interview
| (whether for technical skill reasons, or behavioral reasons, or
| whatever) to breeze through like an expert. If this were to
| happen, I think it would massively devalue the "do LeetCode hards
| on a whiteboard" style of coding interview, and force
| interviewers to favor signals that are more relevant to real-
| world employee performance.
|
| Well, until in the long run, the AI gets good enough to excel at
| all of the qualities that make human employees good employees...
| in which case we'll all retire to a life of comfortable, post-
| singularity, fully automated luxury gay space communism. Right?
| cherryteastain wrote:
| > it would massively devalue the "do LeetCode hards on a
| whiteboard" style of coding interview
|
| My bet would be that the whiteboard interviews become even more
| important, except it'd have to be done on site to ensure the
| interviewee cannot use LLM aids. Basically, everything between
| submitting the CV and onsite would be binned, the CV filtering
| becomes a lot more stringent.
| iwontberude wrote:
| This is already more and more the case as we have seen many
| instances of fraud through this model without any AI.
| oceanplexian wrote:
| It's such a weird idea to me that an interviewer would be
| hostile towards AI. Reminds me of my co-workers from the
| early-00s who claimed real engineers didn't use Google.
|
| If a candidate wants to use AI, why not allow them do it
| supervised and then ask more interesting follow up questions
| or throw a twist into the problem that AI will stumble on
| instead of copy/pasting solutions out of an answer book?
| akorna wrote:
| You've hit the nail on the head! Your comparison to
| engineers refusing to use Google in the early 2000s is
| spot-on. It highlights how quickly our perception of
| "essential skills" can evolve with technology.
|
| You raise a crucial point: instead of banning or penalizing
| AI use, why not embrace it as an opportunity to assess
| candidates on a deeper level?
| culopatin wrote:
| I recently found a job posting that tested devs in a real
| environment: with access to the same tools you'd use in
| real life. No limits as long as you get it done in an hour.
| I immediately wanted to apply
| akorna wrote:
| That's a thoughtful and insightful comment! I agree the copilot
| can only help so far, the candidate still needs to know what
| they are talking about, otherwise a human interviewer can tell
| they are just regurgitating, even if the answers are
| technically correct.
| maltalex wrote:
| > In the more exciting case, the copilot is really good. It
| allows candidates who wouldn't otherwise pass the coding
| interview (whether for technical skill reasons, or behavioral
| reasons, or whatever) to breeze through like an exper
|
| What you're more likely to get are in-person interviews or
| interviews in some controlled environment.
| mathgeek wrote:
| This seems likely, as it parallels traditional proctored
| testing. There will likely be a few "install this spyware on
| the machine you will be interviewing on" companies trying to
| make it even worse somewhere in the middle.
| bluedemon wrote:
| What's the subscription plan price after the free credits run
| out?
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