[andyish]

For tech and nontech, it's terrible.

Nontech roles are just a sea of prompt-generated answers, they don't tie into the applicants' experience and are usually about 200 words of waffle. If you're applying for something, type out a few sentences then give it to a prompt to refine. Don't just paste the question in.

Tech roles we focus on the combination of soft skills and technical skills and so we've gone back to a 'pair' programming exercise and a whiteboard architecture exercise. In reality, it's just a spectator sport that we nudge them forward if needed.

In Java looking for them to cover the basics of debugging a problem, writing a test, and mocking out some services. I would say 50% are unable to or unwilling to write a test to prove the error or don't know how to mock out a service.

Whiteboard exercise looking for them to explain a system they've worked on in the past. We question some of their decisions and see how they handle themselves. Not many get defensive (though some do).