[RulerOf]

> I think stuff like this is going to make it harder for companies to assess candidates, fight fraud and generally operate.

Yikes. Now I imagine a totally unqualified candidate for literally anything feeding interview questions to the chat bot and I don't like it at all.

[zdragnar]

Even worse: now there is a justification for forcing candidates to solve coding problems on whiteboards, as interviews and coding homework problems will be considered intently suspect.

My single worst interview experience was an on-site five hour marathon of whiteboard coding, with a grumpy senior insisting that the code on the whiteboard be syntactically correct. Nothing screams "we want unthinking ticket crunching machines" like optimizing for candidates willing to focus on writing code by hand for hours on end.

Naturally, I rejected the follow-up interview, but I fear that more companies now are going to demand this nonsense.

Side note: in my personal example, the whiteboard session wasn't the reason I turned them down; I asked every person on the team roughly how many hours a week they worked and not one of them answered the question (instead redirected the conversation towards "you can work from home sometimes!" type answers).

Since then, however, I have rejected other companies trying to ape this style flat out. A short half hour, fine. Five hours? Pound sand, I say.

[darkwater]

You know the real issue there? In 5 years that kind of company will be using only CodeGPT instead of hiring humans.

[thr0wawayf00]

I think any company relying solely on AI to build a tech business in the future is itself at risk. Where's your moat if your business is built entirely on AI licensed from someone else?

[thinkloop]

In an era where that's possible, the expectation will be for humans to be working hand-in-hand with computers, whether to make superior code or answer better interview questions. The bar will simply be elevated, and you will have to judge candidates on their computer/human synergy. The only time that what you say could be a problem is if the technology to answer interview questions is far superior than that of doing actual work. But then there is the next round of interviews (in-person, etc.). This also kind'of exists today in the form of googling answers while on interview, which for some reason lots of companies don't like, even tho no coder isn't constantly googling on the job.