[HN Gopher] AI Broke Interviews
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       AI Broke Interviews
        
       Author : yusufaytas
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2025-11-01 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ferrouswheel wrote:
       | While I agree LLMs have forever changed the interviewing game, I
       | also strongly disagree with deeming slop code as "perfect" and
       | "optimal".
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       | There's a lot of shitty code made my LLMs, even today. So maybe
       | we should lean in, and get people to critique generated code with
       | the interviewer. Besides, being able to talk through, review, and
       | discuss code is more important than the initial creation.
        
       | ForHackernews wrote:
       | I do in-person whiteboard interviews.
        
       | sega_sai wrote:
       | I am teaching a coding class, and we had to switch to in person
       | interview/viva assessment about the code written by students, to
       | deal with AI written code. It works, but it requires a lot of
       | extra effort on our side. I don't know if it is sustainable...
        
       | nextworddev wrote:
       | Is this true? I'm still seeing mediocre talent getting hired into
       | faang
        
       | kace91 wrote:
       | I don't understand how offline interviewing is needed to catch ai
       | use, not counting take homes.
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       | Surely just asking the candidate to lean a bit back on the web
       | interview and then having a regular talk without him reaching for
       | the keyboard is enough? I guess they can have some in between
       | layer hearing the conversation and posting tips but even then it
       | would be obvious someone's reading from a sheet.
        
       | neilv wrote:
       | > _Interviewing has always been a big can of worms in the
       | software industry. For years, big tech has gone with the LeetCode
       | style questions mixed with a few behavioural and system design
       | rounds. Before that, it was brainteasers._
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       | Before Google, AFAIK, it was ad hoc, among good programmers. I
       | only ever saw people talking with people about what they'd worked
       | on, and about the company.
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       | (And I heard that Microsoft sometimes did massive-ego interviews
       | early on, but fortunately most smart people didn't mimic that.)
       | 
       | Keep in mind, though, that was was before programming was a big-
       | money career. So you had people who were really enthusiastic, and
       | people for whom it was just a decent office job. People who
       | wanted to make lots of money went into medicine, law, or
       | financial.
       | 
       | As soon as the big-money careers were on for software, and word
       | got out about Google (founded by people with no prior industry
       | experience) interviewed... we got undergrads _prepping_ for
       | interviews. Which was a new thing, my impression is that the only
       | people who would need to prep for interviews weren 't good, or
       | were maybe some kind of hustler. But then eventually those
       | students, who had no awareness of anything else, thought that
       | that this was normal, and now so many companies just blindly do
       | it.
       | 
       | If we could just make some other profession be easier big money,
       | maybe we could go back to only people who were genuinely
       | enthusiastic doing it, and we could do it like adults instead of
       | teenagers pledging a frat.
        
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