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by educaysean 759 days ago
Remote technical interviews are over.

Have GPT4o running on the background and have it type out the answers as your interviewer reads aloud the questions. Share your screen and let it find the bugs for you in real time. Never get any facts wrong as you smugly correct your interviewer about the minute details of an obscure AWS Route 53 API.
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klipklop 759 days ago
I suspect that people doing the interviews will do the same thing so they can appear to be an expert in all subject matter.

It will be even harder than before to land a job without friends on the inside of the company vouching for you.

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madarco 759 days ago
oh god, of all the amazing problems to solve with this wonderful technology, you surely did pick the most useless. What's this obsession with interviews on HN? Hired a bunch of people in my career and 1 call was enough with a success ration of 98%
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klipklop 759 days ago
People obsess about interviews because they need to do well to get a job to make money so they won't live on the streets. The whole interview process is a total mess these days. Already filled with ML stuff to reject your application before you even get a chance at an in-person interivew.

People already use AI to punch of their resumes to make themselves look more attractive.

Doing great in a FAANG interview is life changing money for people from the lower and lower-middle classes. It can bring up your entire family. The stakes are high, which means people will use every tool to have an advantage.

The interview arms race just got more crazy!

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educaysean 759 days ago
Congratulations on your success ratio. If you don't mind me asking, however, what constitutes a "success" in your eyes? I also interviewed and hired / rejected many applicants through my career, but I don't know if we ever discussed our successes as a single quantitative metric. I'm interested to find out what you measured.

I "picked out" this problem to discuss here because I find the process of "approximating someone else's skills" an interesting endeavor without a clear solution. Do you think the current remote interviewing techniques are effective? Regardless of your answer, it looks like it's going to change dramatically. I find that to be interesting I guess :)

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